Integrated Care

Peoria Integrated Healthcare Program

A four year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is supporting the further development of integrated behavioral health and primary care services for adults with a serious mental illness.  This project is a partnership between Human Service Center and the Heartland Community Health Clinic.  Two Nurse Care Managers and three Wellness Coaches assist persons enrolled in the project to address chronic health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and cardio vascular disease to learn to manage these disorders while improving their health and wellness.  A web based patient registry will contain both primary care and behavioral health measures and will allow monitoring of health status and adaptation of treatment approaches as needed.  An Integrated Wellness Management and Recovery learning module developed by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School is being utilized to teach techniques to management illnesses.