EASY Consultation Program | About Us
EASY is a peer-to-peer consult program supporting primary care providers in providing mental health assessments and treatments in their practice settings. Our program offers peer-to-peer mental health phone and email consultation, educational and training sessions, and clinical tools for providers with adult and geriatric patients. Read more about our program and services below.
What can we help with?
Our team of psychiatrists and referral specialists can help answer general questions about adult and geriatric mental health and substance use concerns as well as help provide guidance and suggestions for specific cases.
This includes:
- Screening, diagnosing and treating common mental health conditions such as but not limited to mood disorders, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, addiction, ADHD and psychosis
- Evaluation and management of cognitive impairment and dementia
- Deprescribing of medications such as psychotropics, opioids and benzodiazepines
- Management of psychiatric medications in complex medical conditions such as cirrhosis, renal failure, transplant, oncology, TBI, Parkinson's, cardiovascular disease and HIV
- Approach to evaluation and medication management of mental health symptoms in complex syndromes such as ME/CFS, POTS and mast cell
- Evaluation and management of mental health symptoms and brain fog related to long COVID
- How to implement mental health screening into your primary care practice
- Assistance with finding community mental health resources
- Evaluation and management of substance use disorders in setting of other co-occurring mental health conditions, including questions regarding medication for addiction treatment (eg, naltrexone, Vivitrol, buprenorphine, etc. )
- Evaluation and management of mental health conditions in the setting of substance use
Services
We offer free peer-to-peer consultation to primary care providers caring for adult and geriatric patients with mental health concerns. Telephone and email consults are typically completed within 1 business day. Epic asynchronous e-consults are answered within 72 hrs.
We offer free peer-to-peer consultation to primary care providers caring for adult and geriatric patients with mental health concerns. Telephone and email consults are typically completed within 1 business day. Epic asynchronous e-consult are answered within 72 hrs.We do not consult directly with patients or families.
How do our consults work?
Primary care providers can call our consult line at 1-888-910-0153 during business hours (M-F: 9am-5pm) to speak with our Resource and Referral Specialists or after hours may leave a message for call back the next business day. During business hours, an EASY psychiatrist will call you back within 1 business day. Together, we’ll determine the appropriate treatment and support options for your patient.
If needed, resources and referrals will be sent to you after your consultation call.
Please note that EASY Consultation is consultation service. You will continue managing care for your patient.
We offer learning services for medical providers throughout the year through a combination of written reference material, clinical toolskits, asynchronous learning modules and live educational sessions. If interested in having us provide a free educational session on a mental health topic of your choice, please email us at easyconsultation@cuanschutz.edu
A Care Coordinator will identify and provide resources and referrals tailored to the individual needs of each patient.
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