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SUMMARY:Distinction in Behavioral Health Integration: ...
DESCRIPTION:About this On Demand Training\n\nDistinction in Behavioral 
 Health Integration: Success Stories From Clinicians on the 
 Front LinesBehavioral health continues to be at the 
 forefront of health care\, affecting quality of life and 
 health outcomes\, and the pandemic's impact has increased the 
 number of patients who could benefit from behavioral health 
 integration in primary care practices. NCQA Distinction in 
 Behavioral Health Integration provides guidance for 
 practices to establish solid and effective processes for 
 ensuring that patients continue to get the right care at the 
 right time\, whether it's primary care or a behavioral health 
 intervention. This special QIS course lets participants hear 
 directly from clinicians who have embraced NCQA’s 
 Distinction in Behavioral Health Integration. Their success 
 stories will resonate with and inspire any practice 
 interested in taking the next steps toward providing 
 coordinated care behavioral health and primary care 
 clinicians.\nWhat You Will Learn\n\nLearn the framework of 
 NCQA’s Distinction in Behavioral Health 
 Integration.Discuss the importance and role of behavioral 
 health providers serving adult and pediatric patient 
 populations.Recognize behavioral healthcare methods that 
 prevent\, manage and treat behavioral health conditions.Hear 
 about the challenges\, successes and overall value of 
 integrated behavioral health services.Click here to access 
 the Quality Innovation Series registration page to register 
 or review the full course 
 content.\nFaculty\n\n\nJennifer Anglin\, MS\, CHES\, PCMH 
 CCE\n Jennifer Anglin is a Manger of Recognition Policy at 
 NCQA. Her responsibilities include creation and maintenance 
 of PCMH resources and providing support to practices going 
 through transformation or annual review. Prior to NCQA\, 
 Jennifer worked for Purdue University by assisting practices 
 throughout the state of Indiana on quality improvement and 
 research projects as well as supporting them to meet 
 Medicaid’s Promoting Interoperability program and 
 Medicare’s MIPS program. Jennifer’s professional 
 interests include health policy\, research\, and education. 
 She has a particular interest in social determinants of 
 health and the behavioral health aspect of Patient-Centered 
 Medical Homes. Jennifer holds a BA in secondary education 
 from Valparaiso University and a master’s degree in health 
 science from Indiana State University. Jennifer is a 
 Certified Health Education Specialist and has been a NCQA 
 Patient-Centered Medical Home Certified Content Expert (PCMH 
 CCE) since 2013.        \n \n\nRitu Chandra\, MD\, 
 FAAP\nRitu Chandra\, MD\, FAAP\, is founder of Preferred 
 Medical Group in Phenix City\, Alabama. In addition to her 
 pediatric practice\, she is an Assistant Clinical Professor 
 at Mercer University School of Medicine and Georgia Health 
 Sciences University. She is also faculty for training 
 Physician Assistant students from University of Alabama in 
 Birmingham and from University of South Alabama in Mobile. 
 Dr. Chandra is an advocate for the children in her community 
 and for for children’s health issues at the state level. 
 In 2012\, she was awarded the CATCH grant by the American 
 Academy of Pediatrics to research barriers that keep 
 children from having a pediatric medical home. Dr. Chandra 
 is board certified in pediatrics and is a fellow of the 
 American Academy of Pediatrics. She serves on the Health 
 Advisory Committee of the Phenix City Head Start and on the 
 Board of Care Network of East Alabama. She is also Chair of 
 the Nominating Committee of the Alabama Chapter of American 
 Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Chandra completed her residency 
 in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and at Nassau 
 University Medical Center.\n \n\nJodi Polaha\, 
 Ph.D\nIntegrated behavioral health in rural communities has 
 been central to Dr. Jodi Polaha’s career. She is 
 passionate about developing a behavioral health workforce 
 “at home.” She has been involved in every aspect of 
 integrated care from direct service to development of dozens 
 of practices including a primary care-based telehealth 
 clinic. She has trained over 100 students\, created dozens of 
 field training/practica and co-founded an internship in 
 rural Virginia. She has conducted NIMH and other funded 
 studies focusing on integrated care\, publishing over 20 
 studies in this area. She is currently the co-editor of an 
 APA journal that has systems of care as its focus. She has 
 been a leader/developer of ETSU’s nationally recognized 
 Interprofessional Education Program and in developing 
 integrated care at ETSU Pediatrics and Family Medicine\, 
 where the progressive model of integrated care was featured 
 in The Atlantic Magazine in 2016 (Therapy for Everyone). Dr. 
 Polaha attended the University of Pittsburgh for her 
 undergraduate studies and earned her doctorate at Auburn 
 University.\n \n\nMatthew Tolliver\, Ph.D\nMatthew Tolliver\, 
 PhD\, is an Assistant Professor\, Director of Behavioral 
 Health in the Department of Pediatrics\, and Assistant 
 Director of the Institute for Integrated Behavioral Health 
 at East Tennessee State University. He provides clinical 
 services to rural and underserved pediatric populations in 
 primary care settings and teaches and trains 
 interprofessional learners in those settings. Dr. Tolliver 
 is a lead instructor for ETSU’s Interprofessional 
 Education Program and received a competitive internal grant 
 to develop and implement an IPE curriculum in behavioral 
 pediatrics. He trained in trauma-informed care and has 
 worked on teams to innovatively address SDOHs and ACEs in 
 pediatric primary care. Dr. Tolliver helped lead ETSU 
 Pediatrics to become one of the first pediatric practices in 
 Tennessee to earn NCQA Distinction in Behavioral Health 
 Integration.\n \nContinuing Education\n\n\nIn support of 
 improving patient care\, the National Committee for Quality 
 Assurance is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council 
 for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)\, the Accreditation 
 Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)\, the American Nurses 
 Credentialing Center (ANCC)\, the American Academy of 
 Physician Assistants (AAPA)\, the American Psychological 
 Association (APA)\, and the Association of Social Work Boards 
 (ASWB) to provide Interprofessional Continuing 
 Education for the healthcare team. \nThis educational 
 activity is approved for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 
 Credit™. \nThis educational activity is approved for 1.5 
 nursing contact hours.*\nThis live course grants 2.0 
 Required Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH 
 Certified Content Experts.  \n* Please note – You must 
 attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of 
 contact hours.\nDisclosure of Relevant Financial 
 RelationshipsThe National Committee for Quality Assurance 
 (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council 
 for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors 
 of continuing medical education activities and presenters at 
 and planners for these activities disclose any relevant 
 financial relationships either party might have with 
 commercial companies whose products or services are 
 discussed in educational presentations.\nFor sponsors\, 
 relevant financial relationships include large research 
 grants\, institutional agreements for joint initiatives\, 
 substantial gifts\, or other relationships that benefit the 
 institution.  For presenters or planning committee members\, 
 relevant financial relationships include the receipt of 
 research grants from a commercial company\, consultancies\, 
 honoraria\, travel\, or other benefits\, or having a 
 self-managed equity interest in a company\; or having an 
 immediate family member or partner with such a 
 relationship.\nDisclosure of a relationship is not intended 
 to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made 
 to provide participants with information that might be of 
 potential importance to their evaluation of a 
 presentation.\nRelevant financial relationships exist with 
 the following companies/organizations:\nFaculty:\nJennifer 
 Anglin: None\nRita Chandra: None\nJodi Polaha: None\nMatthew 
 Toliver: None\nAdditional Planning Committee 
 Members:\nCrissy Crittenden: None\n \nThis program was 
 developed in part by NCQA staff.\nThis program received no 
 commercial support.\n
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