NC-PACT: North Carolina Psychiatric Access through Community Telepsychiatry

This community-based behavioral health project seeks to provide evidence-based, out-patient mental health care to patients who currently lack access to such care. This will be a demonstration project embedded in a currently operational primary care clinic providing a multi-disciplinary approach to health maintenance. The model proposed utilizes an integrated care model in which a behavioral health provider (BHP) or care manager is embedded in a primary care setting. BHP is linked, via telepsychiatry, to a psychiatrist for case consultation and care planning. The psychiatrist is also available to the primary care provider for diagnostic and treatment recommendations.

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