Montrose Counseling Center Legacy Community Health Services

Background/Partnership History MCC was founded in 1978 out of a town hall meeting in the GLBT community Legacy was founded in 1981 as an STD clinic for the gay community and is now an FQHC serving the entire community There has been a long history of collaboration on projects for HIV prevention, breast cancer outreach and screening, senior services

About Our Program Integration model – MCC and LCHS are providing integration at both sites. MCC providing substance abuse and case management at LCHS, LCHS providing screening, wellness and nutrition at MCC. Strategies used to incorporate primary care - health screenings, wellness classes and events, nutritional counseling Enrollment target – 60/year

About Our Program Special populations served – LGBT and HIV Urban setting Wellness services offered – yoga, fitness room, peer resiliency series, tobacco cessation, healthy eating series, and psychoeducation of SMIs Use of peers – resiliency series and consumer advisory panel EHR vendor – MCC: “home grown”, LCHS: Centricity

Who We Are MCC Andrea Washington, LCSW, Project Coordinator Ann J. Robison, PhD, Executive Director Nadpon Petnoy, Programmer (Contractor) LCHS Tina Megdal, MEd

Successful Strategies Designing a customized, home grown electronic health record Step by step involvement of clinical staff to design a product customized to our needs Results – making the system relevant to the clinical staff, capturing the data that can help our clients Enrollment/Reassessment Understanding each system and how they can work together Developing communication tools Sustainability Understanding each others billing and financing structures Planning for 2014

Plans for the Future Sustainability o Clinical – working our incorporating the health assessment into MCC behavioral health assessment and electronic records, testing record exchanges o Financial – credentialing the substance abuse treatment program under FQHC Accountable Care Organization activity o Exchanging records through the Health Information Exchange o Transmitting public health surveillance data and lab orders

Montrose Counseling Center

Legacy Community Health Services