New Models for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Lessons from Six Colorado Health Care Providers

The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) studied six practices that are testing an array of approaches to integration, tailoring models to their locations, their client populations, their workplace cultures and their available resources, among other considerations. Each practice demonstrates how communities are developing local health care solutions to meet local needs. And each has lessons for Colorado’s policymakers, health care leaders and practices just beginning the integration journey.