Patient Population: Adults
Project Date(s): 01/01/2020 – 10/01/2022
Project Funder(s): Premera
The AIMS Center is partnering with Premera to support up to 30 clinics in rural Washington and Alaska to expand access to evidence-based mental health treatment. Selected clinics will receive up to $245,000 over 15 months to defray participation costs.
01/01/2008
Project Director(s): Jürgen Unützer
Project Funder(s): Washington State Legislature, Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW), and Public Health - Seattle & King County
MHIP helps low income or safety net populations throughout the state of Washington by integrating high quality mental health treatment into primary care settings using Collaborative Care.
Project Director(s): Ashley Heald
Primary care providers receive training and technical assistance to implement a Collaborative Care (CoCM) program or spread their existing CoCM services to enhance care for women with perinatal depression and other behavioral health disorders.
Project Date(s): 01/01/2017 – 06/01/2019
Project Funder(s): HRSA; NIMH
HRSA and NIMH contracted with the AIMS Center to train and support 11 nurse-led safety-net clinics throughout the US as they implemented Collaborative Care.
Project Date(s): 06/01/2012 – 05/01/2015
Project Director(s): Jürgen Unützer
Project Funder(s): Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)
COMPASS is a collaborative care model designed to treat patients in primary care experiencing depression as well as diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease.
Project Date(s): 04/01/2017 – 05/01/2018
Project Funder(s): St. Luke’s Health System
The AIMS Center provided training and technical assistance to St. Luke’s Health System as they implemented a Collaborative Care program in April 2017. This implementation took place over 12 months and included three clinics in spring 2017 and two clinics in fall 2017. Eventually collaborative care will be spread across the entire of network of clinics at St. Luke’s Health System, the only Idaho-based, not-for-profit health system.
Project Date(s): 11/01/2015 – 11/01/2015
Project Director(s): Ashley Heald
The Collaborative Care Medicaid Program (CCMP) is a program helping clinics in New York to fully integrate behavioral health screening and treatment into primary care settings and to provide reimbursement for those services.
12/01/2015
Project Funder(s): NIMH
TEAMcare was a randomized controlled trial designed to test Collaborative Care strategies in managing depression, diabetes, and coronary heart disease in primary care.
Project Date(s): 10/01/2008 – 08/01/2014
Project Funder(s): A combination of public and commercial billing and support from the UW academic health care system.
BHIP uses Collaborative Care to bring mental health treatment into UW Neighborhood Clinics, a system of primary care clinics located throughout greater Seattle.
Project Date(s): 10/01/2012 – 09/01/2015
Project Funder(s): New York Office of Mental Health
The New York State Collaborative Care Initiative helped primary care residents learn how to effectively practice team-based care to treat mental health conditions, a skill that has become increasingly important as integrated care becomes more widespread.
Project Date(s): 02/01/2014 – 02/01/2014
Project Funder(s): Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
DIAMOND was a collaborative effort of 9 health plans, 25 medical groups, and over 80 primary care clinics in Minnesota to implement and study Collaborative Care for depression.
01/01/2014
Project Funder(s): Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
A pilot program attempting to determine whether integrated mental health care can be effective given the unique challenges faced by primary care clinics in Alaska.
Project Date(s): 01/01/2014 – 01/01/2014
Project Funder(s): Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
The AIMS Center provided training and coaching to five primary care organizations in Texas to implement integrated care for the two mental health conditions most commonly encountered in primary care: depression and anxiety disorders.
Project Date(s): 01/01/2014 – 01/01/2014
Project Funder(s): California Endowment
This research project combined Collaborative Care with an existing diabetes care management program for low income, predominantly Spanish-speaking Latinx populations.
Project Date(s): 01/01/2014 – 01/01/2014
Project Funder(s): American Red Cross
When hurricanes Katrina and Rita devasted New Orleans, the AIMS Center worked on a Red Cross funded initiative to rebuild the primary care system to include Collaborative Care. The project enhanced the availability of evidence-based mental health services to uninsured, disadvantaged, and minority community members offered through REACH NOLA’s Mental Health Infrastructure and Training Project. It also showed the benefits of integrated mental health care after disasters, particularly for depression and post-tr