Research

The Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation’s Center of Excellence for Integrated Care (COE) has been grateful to play a role in North Carolina’s journey towards whole person and integrated behavioral health care, alongside an amazing statewide network of entities, agencies, and individuals passionate about health care in our state. With the call for the recognition and incorporation of treatment of the whole person in North Carolina’s healthcare system, we felt it was time to take a look back at how far we have come as a state.

We are excited to share this review of literature, which was done as an homage to all of those involved in the development and implementation of integrated behavioral healthcare in North Carolina. Every effort was made to be as thorough as possible, but we also acknowledge that to truly shift a paradigm it takes change on multiple levels of multiple systems. Therefore, it is likely that we did not capture all of the efforts and all levels of complexity in this review.

Additionally, we recognize that there is more work to be done, and more whole person elements to include, to develop a seamless, whole person care system in our state. This movement — this paradigm shift from siloed care to whole person care — has been and will continue to be a collective effort, and this publication is one small piece of the puzzle that adds to the historical body of knowledge of North Carolina healthcare. We hope you enjoy it!