Path Forward

Path Forward

Mental Health Care

Washington, DC 497 followers

Giving mental healthcare the brightest possible future | Network Adequacy | Collaborative Care | Measurement-Based Care

About us

The Path Forward is a multi-stakeholder, national-local push to promote the evidence-based, data-driven practices and policies with the best chances of increasing equitable access to quality mental health care and accelerating integration of mental health and addiction care into the broader health system. We achieve our results through radical collaboration across the entire health ecosystem. EQUITABLE ACCESS The Path Forward achieves equitable access by educating employers, states, local governments, unions, and other health purchasers to help them demand more from their health plans and third-party administrators. We provide education through our partner National Alliance’s Regional Multi-Stakeholder Coalitions and technical assistance through our detailed Quantitative Data Templates. COLLABORATIVE CARE : THE GOLD STANDARD FOR INTEGRATION Collaborative Care is the gold standard for behavioral health integration in primary care and the most evidence-based model that exists. Adding a behavioral health care manager and psychiatric consultant to a primary care clinician’s team, it brings the mental health screening and referral process directly to the person in need during a primary care visit. HIGH QUALITY CARE Better quality mental health care begins with the same approaches that have reduced mortality and morbidity rates for heart disease and cancer every year for the last few decades: employing person-centered, precision measurement tools to detect needs early—optimally before the person or their family even knows there is a problem—and tracking the outcomes of care systematically to inform treatment choices and drive person-centered results. We call this Precision Medicine, and it is grounded in an array of Measurement-based Care (MBC) tools. Path Forward is promoting Precision Medicine and MBC with purchasers, payers, and health systems. We also seek action from the major accreditation agencies on national standards. More at: pathforwardcoalition.org/plan

Industry
Mental Health Care
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Washington, DC
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
2023
Specialties
Mental Health Care, Substance Abuse Care, Equitable Access, Collaborative Care Model, and Quality Care

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