Mental Health Wilmington

Secretary Landgraf opened the summit by providing a snapshot of Delaware’s health status in the later days, candidly acknowledging that the picture ain’t pretty.

She challenged participants to consider how to advance it in a sustainable way that demonstrates healthier outcomes for guys and girls and communities, there’s little question. That all involved in the health care delivery system probably were philosophically supportive of integration.

Delawareans smoke, nearly one third were probably obese, and Delaware’s 11 percent diabetes incidence rate and per capita health care costs have been 25 percent higher than average. She discussed the behavioral health symptoms, including depression and addiction, that increasingly are probably faced by our aging population and people with chronic diseases. Have you heard of something like that before? Over last a couple of years, Christiana Care has successfully embedded behavioral health specialists within the primary care setting and in such specialties as Cancer, Heart Vascular and Women’s Children’s Health.

So this integrated model has opened behavioral health doors to lots of who will otherwise under no circumstances seek help.

Summit was proposed by Christiana Care, that convened a task force to oversee planning and helped to lead program.

Key leaders in process were Kurfuerst, Linda Lang, Christiana Care’s chair of Psychiatry Department, and Erin Booker, LPC, corporate director of Behavioral Health. And therefore the Christiana Care team and community task force partners worked highly with Rita Landgraf, secretary of Health Delaware Department and common solutions, to ensure that plans for summit support Delaware’s State Health Care Innovation Plan and State Innovation Model. Key focus of SIM has been strong coordination of care across multiple providers including primary care and behavioral health to event got gether about 50 thought leaders from social and special sectors state agencies, health systems, behavioral health facilities and practices, nonprofit organizations, patient and family representatives and law enforcement in what’s believed to be first such statewide focus group to examine the different uchpoints throughout Delaware’s behavioral health system. Accordingly the goal. They discussed challenges through population lens health taking into account civilized and economical factors, and exploring methods to engage, authorize and support communities to advance in health and wellness. Among their recommendations. Seriously. So participants discussed how best to create a delivery system focused on consumer. That said, secretary Landgraf praised summit participants for their leadership and partnership to explore how behavioral integration health with primary care usually can create a holistic delivery system with consumer at the center.