By OPEN MINDS Circle
Blaze Advisors and IHNSA participants are pleased to announce the launch of the Integral Health Network of Southern Arizona, LLC (IHNSA), an integrated accountable care organization. With a focus on supporting consumers with complex behavioral, medical, and social care needs, the members of IHNSA, have formed a collaborative system of care, focused on improving coordinated access to behavioral health, primary care, and social services to and lower crisis events and unnecessary utilization of high-cost services. Participating organizations include CODAC Health, Recovery & Wellness, Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI), Helping Ourselves Pursue Enrichment (HOPE) Inc., Horizon Health and Wellness, and La Frontera Arizona, Inc.
Utilizing the Blaze Advisors ONEcare model and technology suite, IHNSA focuses on supporting those with behavioral health challenges through early disease identification and provider organization collaboration in meeting the needs of consumers at the right time and in the right place. IHNSA has successfully contracted with Banner University Health Care (BUHC) to improve health outcomes for BUHC members suffering from co-occurring medical and behavioral health issues and is in negotiations to support other consumer cohorts, as well.
IHNSA is a high-performance network of behavioral and integrated health home provider organizations with a statewide footprint across Arizona and beyond. IHNSA provider organizations maintain a variety of culturally proficient outpatient and crisis response programs including individual and group therapy; medication management; peer support; mobile and facility-based crisis intervention; Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT); primary care; residential services; homeless outreach; affordable housing and wellness/recovery programs specific to Native health, veterans, women & children. IHNSA provides a vehicle for cross-collaborative affiliate agreements with social service, hospital, primary care, and medical partners to develop an integrative system of care.
Blaze Advisors, a national leader in Population Health Management and Integrated Care, works closely with health care payers, provider organizations, and community partners to operationalize and manage high-performance ONEcare networks delivering comprehensive, inclusive, and informed whole-person care designed to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. Blaze Advisors has extensive operational expertise in developing clinically integrated high-performance networks, population health analytics, care coordination technologies, and clinical quality improvement programs. Each ONEcare network is augmented by the Care Optimization System which allows real-time communication, referrals, and insights to the consumer’s care team. This “Virtual Practice” approach allows collaboration and follow-up, delivers clinical intelligence, and live connections via phone/SMS with consuemrs in between visits. With over 3 million managed lives across the US, ONEcare networks provide a shared vision of whole-person care and a platform of population health technologies to provide comprehensive, inclusive, and data-driven improvements in health outcomes.
Contact information: Farra Lanzer, Blaze Advisors for Integral Health Network of Southern Arizona, LLC, 5100 Northcreek Road Wilmington, North Carolina 28409; Email: 344284@email4pr.com; Website: https://www.blazeadvisors.com/