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FAQ: Collaborative Bridges' Issue Paper on Protecting Behavioral Health in Illinois
TL;DR
Collaborative Bridges' model demonstrates how healthcare providers can gain a competitive edge by reducing psychiatric readmissions to 9% and saving $3 million annually in Medicaid costs.
Collaborative Bridges' Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives integrate hospitals, health centers, and behavioral health agencies into a financially sustainable model that reduces readmissions through community-based care coordination.
Collaborative Bridges' community care hub preserves access to behavioral health services during federal cuts, improving health equity for vulnerable populations on Chicago's West Side.
Illinois' innovative Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives achieve a 9% psychiatric readmission rate versus 33% nationally, showing how community partnerships can transform behavioral healthcare delivery.
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The paper examines the national threat to Medicaid-funded behavioral health services from proposed federal cuts and highlights Illinois' innovative response through Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives (HTCs).
It brings clarity and urgency to the threat of federal reductions exceeding $1 trillion over ten years, which could have serious consequences for safety-net systems across the country.
Illinois is responding through Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives (HTCs), with Collaborative Bridges serving as a leading example of an integrated, equity-focused community care hub that partners with hospitals, health centers, behavioral health agencies, and justice-involved service providers.
Collaborative Bridges is a partnership of historic West Side Chicago safety net hospitals and community mental health agencies, founded in 2021, that works with hospitals, health centers, behavioral health agencies, and justice-involved service providers.
The model has achieved a nine percent psychiatric readmission rate (compared to 33 percent nationally) and an estimated $3 million in annual Medicaid savings.
Both the summary and full versions are available for free at www.collaborativebridges.org.
It's an ongoing series of conversations with community leaders across Chicago's West Side that captures firsthand reflections on challenges facing safety-net communities, with short interview clips appearing on Collaborative Bridges' social media channels.
Collaborative Bridges was founded in 2021 with the mission to ensure care needs for mental health and substance abuse are supported in the community, improve health equity of West Side communities, and reduce gaps in care by creating continuity between hospitals and communities.
The model brings together hospitals, community providers, and neighborhood partners with shared purpose to preserve access to care, resulting in significantly lower readmission rates and substantial Medicaid savings.
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