University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Goal Area: Continuum of Care

The continuum of care goal is to build, enhance, and evaluate services to ensure the continuum of care across the lifespan, settings, and health–illness experience.

Objectives

Step-up and Step-down – Provide expanded levels of service (e.g., Intensive Outpatient Programs).
Substance Use - Provide increased and equitable access to substance use treatment.
Trauma - Strengthen ability to treat patients with complex trauma from a culturally informed perspective.
Decrease Disparities - Increase access and decrease mental health disparities among racial/ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities.
Integrated Care - Expand and enhance the availability of integrated care.
Specialty Clinics - Continue to develop specialty clinics.

Major Initiatives

Committee Chair: Chris Schneck

Measurement Assisted Care – Developing a program to collect data, track and share data with the patient and use it to engage in shared decision-making, goal setting, and treatment planning.
Pursue Babyscripts project a collaboration with an industry partner to design a clinical trial for use with the postpartum population at-risk for Postpartum Depression.
Expansion of Mental Health coverage in Transplant: Department of Psychiatry Adult Division collaboration with the Transplant Department to build a more robust, specialized service line to specifically serve the complex mental health needs of the peri-transplant population including outpatient psychiatric evaluations and management, psychotherapy, chart review consults and care coordination.
Added a new Director of Integrated Behavioral Health Services Office of Psychological Science and Practice (OPSP) to oversee the integration of psychological services into medical specialty programs such as Transplant, Bariatric and Burn.

Build a Hospital Transformation Program based on Universal Depression and Suicide Screening at Children’s Hospital.
Expanded CDU2 18 hour coverage in January of 2023. Working with UC Health to determine when to move to 24-hour coverage.
Developing Intensive Outpatient programs - a service model focused on giving rapid higher-level access to skill acquisition and care.

Additional Goal Areas

Psychiatry (SOM)

CU Anschutz

Anschutz Health Sciences Building

1890 N Revere Ct

Suite 4003

Mail Stop F546

Aurora, CO 80045

303-724-4940

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CU Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Psychiatry

School of Medicine

Goal Area: Continuum of Care

Objectives

Major Initiatives

Additional Goal Areas

Psychiatry (SOM)

Goal Area: Continuum of Care

Objectives

Major Initiatives

General Adult Clinical

Integrated Care

Step-up and Step-Down

Additional Goal Areas

Psychiatry (SOM)