Can coordinating Doctor Services create Better Rural Mental Health?

Integrating primary care services and treatment for mental health and substance use conditions enhances patients’ access to needed care and cost-effectively improves health outcomes. Yet the barriers to integrated care are substantial, and it is even more difficult to achieve in rural and frontier communities, which are home to 1 in 7 Americans. …

• This healthcare report focuses on Rural America. Download the full report below.

Authors Kendall Strong, Michele Gilbert, Julia Harris, Mikayla Curtis, G. William Hoagland, and Marilyn Werber Serafini wrote this report for the Bipartisan Policy Center:  Achieving Behavioral Health Care Integration in Rural America