By OPEN MINDS Circle
Netsmart and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing announced a strategic partnership to enhance care coordination and population health management for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) and their clients. Through this partnership, the National Council will recommend Netsmart CareManager™ as the preferred care coordination solution for CCBHCs, health homes and other behavioral health organizations delivering value-based care. Netsmart currently provides solutions and services to more than 100 CCBHCs nationwide and the National Council is a partner to nearly all CCBHCs across the country.
The two organizations plan to develop a national CBHC outcomes and reporting data repository in conjunction with their member and client partners to highlight how the CCBHC model has transformed behavioral health systems. This repository will provide the National Council and CCBHCs with access to nationwide data showing the impact of CCBHCs on outcomes and cost of care. This data will be leveraged for behavioral health research, benchmarking services, and industry advocacy. The data repository will provide CCBHC sites the opportunity to achieve nationwide benchmarks, standardize reporting, understand and improve client outcomes, and validate best practices.
Netsmart’s CareManager solution enhances and automates the complex process of operationalizing population health management. It aggregates data from multiple sources to provide a holistic view of an individual’s health and social risk profiles to better facilitate coordinated care. The solution also identifies gaps in care, including social determinants of health (SDoH), helping provider organizations better understand the consumers they serve, support proactive care delivery, improve outcomes and reduce costs. CCBHCs, health homes and other value-based programs have deployed the CareManager solution.
The organizations are hosting a webinar about the partnership on December 10, 2021, at 1:00 PM (Eastern). The session will discuss the partnership’s goals and the path forward for value-based care. The scheduled presenters are Joe Parks, M.D., medical director for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing; Brent McGinty, president and chief executive officer at Missouri Behavioral Health Council; and Julie Hiett, senior director of population health at Netsmart.
Founded in 1969, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing is a non-profit membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of nearly 3,500 mental health and addiction treatment provider organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults, and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. It seeks to build capacity of its member organizations, and to promote greater understanding of mental wellbeing as a core component of comprehensive health and health care.
Netsmart provides health information Software as a Service (SaaS) technology and services solutions. Its portfolio includes electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchanges (HIEs), analytics and telehealth solutions and services. Its platform provides accurate, up-to-date information that is easily accessible to care team members in the human services and post-acute care (which is comprised of home care and hospice and senior living) markets. . Netsmart also supports the EveryDayMatters® Foundation, which was established for behavioral health, care at home, senior living and social services organizations to learn from each other and share their causes and stories.
Contact information: Vince Koehler, Communications, Netsmart, 11100 Nall Avenue, Overland Park, Kansas 66211; 913-272-2235; Email: vkoehler@ntst.com; Website: www.ntst.com
Contact information: National Council for Mental Wellbeing, 1400 K Street Northwest, Suite 400, Washington, District of Columbia 20005; 202-684-7457; Email: Communications@TheNationalCouncil.org; Website: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/.