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Mustard Seed Community Health Clinic’s mission is to provide high quality, holistic, integrated health care to those in need, in an environment that dignifies and empowers the whole person. The COE has worked alongside Mustard Seed the last 3 years to help further this mission. Natosha Knight, the on-site full-time behavioral health clinician, has worked alongside Dr. Elizabeth Mulberry and they have continued to improve the ability to coordinate care for patients with complex and chronic conditions including co-morbid conditions or co-occurring disorders. Knight states that “meeting with Sara, our COE integration specialist, has been very helpful in allowing us to assess and think through what integrated care looks like for a small community clinic. Being a part of the [Cone Health Foundation Access to Care] collaboration has also allowed us to see models of integrated care at different locations so that we can figure out what […]

For years, ADS was primarily known in the Greensboro community as a substance use agency and was previously known using the full words, “Alcohol and Drug Services.” While working alongside COE and Cone Health Foundation (CHF), the ADS board took a formal vote to change the name to “ADS”, dropping the use of the full wording “Alcohol and Drug Services.” This new agency title reflected that the agency expanded its focus to dual-diagnosis treatment and integrated primary care, rather than focusing on only substance use treatment. The COE has assisted ADS in becoming a more integrated site including enhancing their onsite integrated care services. Specifically, ADS has streamlined their workflows and created a multidisciplinary team meeting from all agency service lines to enhance quality services. Progress was made in streamlining their IT so that both the integrated primary care side would have access to the same information […]

Triad Adult and Pediatric Medicine (TAPM) was ahead of the curve with integrated care prior to working with the COE, having clinicians in each of their clinics across Greensboro and High Point, North Carolina. However, in the last four years working alongside the COE as part of the Cone Health Foundation Access to Care Collaborative, their whole person care approach has grown immensely. Clinicians who were new to integrated care were trained with the support of the COE while TAPM also revamped their service delivery to include behavioral health care managers allowing all team members to work to the top of their licenses. TAPM clinicians and staff have taken part in COE-facilitated trainings on brief interventions in integrated care, evidence-based treatment of co-morbid conditions and providing services with a cultural humility lens, among others. In obtaining a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) substance use grant, COE […]

Kellin Foundation has partnered with the Center of Excellence for Integrated Care as part of the Cone Health Foundation Co-Occurring Disorders Collaborative for the last four years. With the COE assisting Kellin in transforming from a mental health only agency to a dual-diagnosis enhanced service delivery, this transition significantly increased the number of individuals in the community they can serve. Lylan Wingfield, clinician and deputy director shared, “[working with the COE] has definitely enhanced our service array that we provide and [we can now provide] folks with more specialized treatment options. For our clients, it is nice to be able to see one therapist that can address both disorders rather than have to go to a group at a substance use agency and then an individual therapist over here.” Wingfield noted the improved convenience and improved outcomes for clients as well. Kellin has been able to initiate […]