The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality named M Health Fairview Clinics as an exemplar Integrated Behavioral Health primary care model.
Overview
Integrated Behavioral Health is the care that results from Primary Care Providers and Behavioral Health Clinician’s (BHC’s) partnering together with patients and families to provide a patient-centered, whole person approach to meet your medical and behavioral health needs.
Our approach
A Behavioral Health Clinician is a licensed mental health professional who can help when behaviors, stress, worries or emotional concerns about physical or other life problems are interfering with a person’s daily life and/or overall health. At M Health Fairview, integrated care is a team sport. The BHC and your Primary Care Provider work together to care for you by considering the physical, behavioral and emotional aspects of your health concerns. They partner with you to determine a care plan to support your whole health that will work best for you. We are here when you need us. Our passionate, dedicated and caring team is driven to help you discover real and lasting change.
Services may include: a comprehensive assessment, brief psychotherapy interventions, information, resources and referrals, and coordination and continuity of care with your primary care team.
Conditions treated include: Depression, anxiety, worry, panic, stress management, mood disorders, grief and loss, relationship and parenting concerns, coping with a new or chronic condition, substance use concerns.
Frequently asked questions
Your primary care provider can refer you or you can contact your Primary Care Clinic to request an appointment.
Services are billed to insurance; verify your coverage for outpatient mental health services. Most plans do not have a second co-pay when seen the same day as PCP.
First appointments are 45-60 minutes. Return appointments are 20-30 minutes.
A BHC will conduct a comprehensive assessment and tailor a treatment plan to meet your needs. BHC’s provide brief therapy interventions. They will discuss with you if they believe referrals to other services or a specialty mental health provider for longer term care will help you to meet your goals.