Target Audience

Primary care physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, substance use disorder professionals, or clinic staff who support behavioral health services.

Purpose

Led by a panel of behavioral health experts, Behavioral Health ECHO helps participants learn best practices for treating common mental health conditions and connect with peers from around the state to discuss and learn best practices in identifying and treating behavioral health issues. The curriculum is delivered at no cost through case-based learning strategies via video conferencing technology.

Learning Objectives

1. Apply lessons learned in developing an integrated care workflow.
2. Describe the roles of key team players in integrated care.
3. Describe how issues with role clarity may impact successful workflow design.

Speaker

Lori Raney, MD
Principal, Health Management Associates

Dr. Lori Raney is a board-certified psychiatrist and Principal with Health Management Associates in Denver, Colorado. She is a leading authority on the collaborative care model and the bidirectional integration of primary care and behavioral health.  Her work focuses on service evaluation, gap analysis, and design and training of multidisciplinary teams to implement evidence-based practices to improve the identification and treatment of mental illness in the primary care setting and improve the health status of patients with serious mental illness in behavioral health settings.  She has worked with clients implementing 2703 Health Home State Plan Amendments for behavioral health populations, state innovation models (SIM), and transforming clinical practice initiatives (TCPI), and provided training for personnel implementing Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grants. She is the editor of two books, Integrated Care: Working at the Interface of Primary Care and Behavioral Health and Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation. 
 
She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to integration.  She was selected to be a Master Trainer for the American Psychiatric Association’s grant to train 3,500 psychiatrists in the collaborative care model and has completed the Project ECHO Immersion Training.  Her current work also includes evaluating hospitals and clinics in recognizing and developing strategies to deal with the impact of behavioral health across healthcare systems, including the design and implementation of integrated care in their primary care practices. In addition, she helps clients consider using technology to leverage scarce behavioral health resources in their location.
 
Dr. Raney served for 15 years as the medical director of a community mental health center in rural Colorado, where she fostered the development of a full range of evidence-based services, including the development of a telepsychiatry program, working in and deploying psychiatric providers in corrections settings, developing an inpatient psychiatric treatment unit, managing the psychiatric medical team in implementing prescribing best practices including metabolic monitoring, encouraging medication-assisted treatment of substance use disorders, and establishing hospital-based psychiatric consultation. In her administrative capacity, she has extensive experience in psychiatric medical leadership, innovative strategies for hiring and retaining the psychiatric workforce, established performance measures for good psychiatric care, and implemented strategies to meet key performance indicators required by Medicaid.  During her tenure, she led efforts to implement the collaborative care model of integrated care in diverse primary care locations, including Federally Qualified Health Centers, a Rural Health Center, tribal clinics, and school-based health centers. She has served as a consultant psychiatrist at these locations. 
 
She has worked for over 15 years with tribal populations with the Indian Health Service in remote clinics in the Southwest. She continues clinical work with the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Towaco, Colorado.  She has an active medical license and an X waiver for MAT.

Education

• MD: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine
• Residency: Sheppard Pratt Hospital

Licenses and Certifications

• Board Certified Psychiatrist