The Center of Excellence for Integrated Care blog will highlight areas of interest through a variety of perspectives with a focus on improving whole-person, whole-community, and whole-state health.
Implementation in a Flash
This edition of the COE blog is co-authored by Julie Austen, PhD, and Lisa Tyndall, PhD, LMFT. Dr. Austen is an Implementation Specialist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Tyndall is a Senior Integration Specialist at the Center of Excellence for Integrated Care at the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation. Julie is healer who works at the systems level. With expertise and lived experience at the intersections of health psychology, integrated care, community capacity building, knowledge transfer, and minority wellness, she serves as an implementation specialist with UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Colleagues for a decade, Julie and Lisa’s “forward together” paths crossed when they realized that integrated care cannot move forward without an intentional focus on the “how.” Now, the COE team and Julie partner together to strengthen access to evidence-based […]
Read More>>Experiencing Integrated Care
Welcome to the Team In this story, Ricky Caliendo, LMHC, provides a narrative that describes the experience of integrated care from a patient’s perspective. The names of the patient and doctor are fictitious. “Another night of lost sleep,” I think to myself as the screeches of a toddler travel into my bedroom. There he is. At the foot of my bed, with that look only a mother could read. It’s time for breakfast. My stream of consciousness continues as I move through the morning routine. “Breakfast, pack a daycare bag, project for the office, take your medication…what am I missing?…ugh, doctor’s appointment today!” Attempts at applying eye liner and mascara at a red light should mask the lack of sleep. I adjust the rearview mirror to find my three-year-old son’s face showing intense curiosity. “You look like a clown, mommy,” he comments through his giggles. Children are […]
Read More>>North Carolina Integrated Care Symposium 2019
In the fall of 2019, the Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation’s Center of Excellence for Integrated Care, in partnership with Wake AHEC, hosted the North Carolina Integrated Care Symposium 2019: Inspire, Educate, and Connect.
Read More>>COVID-19 Tests Integrated Care’s Resiliency
COVID-19 Tests Integrated Care’s Resiliency by Ricky Caliendo, LMHC The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed providers, patients, and organizations toward — and beyond — their limits of discomfort, with the potential to remain this way for the foreseeable future. The healthcare system braced itself as the COVID-19 pandemic shocked our nation. Moreover, the world of integrated care sighed as it looked as if another hurdle was in front of us. In the integrated care space, something has changed. Integrated care is the practice of treating the whole person, including physical, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of health. Mental health is a considerable dimension of integrated care. The movement toward treating the whole person has faced challenges since its birth, including the stigma around mental health, policy and payment system hurdles, and the healthcare system’s siloed approach to healing the patient. During the COVID-19 crisis, increased physical distance between […]
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Maintaining Mental Health During a Pandemic
Maintaining Mental Health During a Pandemic by Brady Blackburn, MA COE was pleased to collaborate on this blog post with the North Carolina Oral Health Collaborative (NCOHC), one of our partner programs at the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation, on a discussion of the intersection of mental health, the oral health care world, provider well-being, and COVID-19. “This pandemic is a perfect storm,” said Dr. Lisa Tyndall, an integration specialist with the Center of Excellence for Integrated Care, a program of the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI). As North Carolinians navigate COVID-19 and its various impacts, NCOHC decided to sit down with our partner program at FHLI to discuss how the pandemic poses significant mental health concerns, for patients and providers alike. Tyndall, a licensed marriage and family therapist, said that the wide range of impacts caused by COVID-19 — from financial stress to […]
Read More>>Stress, or more?
Is stress common? Definitely. We all experience good stress, such as excitement, and then there is stress that challenges us. This is a normal part of life. Do mental health disorders exist? Of course.
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