UNLEASHED: Redesigning Health Care

How do mental health providers add value in a primary care setting? What does it take to make the model sustainable? Kate DeGeorge, a family medicine doctor at the University of Virginia, responds to Episode 21. 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e22

Patients discuss mental health with their primary care physicians all of the time. Staggeringly few, however, go on to receive care from mental health professionals. How much might that change if mental health professionals worked side by side with primary care physicians? It’s already happening in several locations around the country, especially in academic medical centers. Christina Moore, a psychologist, shares her experiences leading the effort in pediatrics at Dartmouth Health.
 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e21

In the previous episode, we discussed care for children with medical complexity from a clinician’s point of view. Now, we hear from Annie Hoen, an epidemiologist and health systems researcher at Dartmouth. She’s also a mother of a child with medical complexity. 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e20

How do you care for a high-needs population when every patient is unique? Nancy Murphy, a pediatrician at the University of Utah, has been grappling with the challenge for decades. 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e19.

What are the connections between the mind and, specifically, the heart? How should the health system respond? Roy Ziegelstein, cardiologist and editor-in-chief at DynaMed and DynaAI, offers a response to Episode 17.
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e18.

The mind and the body are connected, but our system generally treats physical and mental health as two separate worlds. Sivan Rotenberg, a clinical psychologist at Dartmouth Health, is trying to change that, specialty by specialty. 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e17

What do elders really want and need? How must the health care system respond? Amber Barnato, director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, also a hospice and palliative care doctor, offers a response to Episode 15. 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e16

EPISODE 15 -  When Si France heard about the PACE program, a care model for nursing-home-eligible seniors, he thought it was the most amazing care model that he’d ever heard of in the United States. He went on to launch WelbeHealth, which serves seniors in thirteen locations in California … and growing.
 
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e15.

EPISODE 14 - We are introducing a new kind of episode, a response episode. Guests will offer reactions to the prior episode. Our first respondent, Roy Ziegelstein, comments on our story in Episode 13 about caring for people with serious mental illness.
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e14

EPISODE 13:  Joe McDonough has a straightforward goal: Keep people with serious mental illness healthy and out of the hospital. He’s doing it with home visits.
Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e13.