Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
Psychiatric Integrated Treatment/Collaborative Health (PITCH), the PITCH program will serve patients with serious mental illness who have or are at risk of poor health, to connect them to and keep them in primary health care, link them to specialty services and engage them in wellness programs and health promotion and education. In partnership with Maimonides Medical Center, OHEL will also provide integrated wellness programming supported by trained Peer Specialists. The service area is the borough of Brooklyn, NY. The population to be served are area residents with DSM IV diagnoses of serious mental illness. The program will provide integrated primary and behavioral care in the PBHCI model. Goal 1: To provide a health care home that offers continuity and comprehensiveness of care for people with serious mental illness and other mental health barriers to improving their health. Goal 2: To empower people with barriers to health care because of mental illness to make informed and healthy decisions about their own health care and wellness by offering a holistic lifestyle management approach to combat the clear physical health inequalities they now experience. Goal 3: To improve the efficiency, cost effectiveness and quality of service delivery by more accurately targeting services. Measurable performance goals entail improvements to HB A1C and lipid levels, reuced BMI, waist circumference, Breath CO, blood pressure and reduction of the range of health-related risk behaviors.
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