Behavioral Health Consultation in the Inpatient Service

Overview:

Patient complexity due to physical and behavioral health concerns as well as social determinants of health are prevalent in the inpatient medical setting. Consistently, it is this combination of factors that is the foundation for admission, making a biopsychosocial approach to care particularly relevant. The inpatient medical setting provides an opportunity to provide patients and families with behavioral interventions to impact the Quadruple Aim. This presentation will provide an overview of the history of consultation-liaison services by psychologists in the inpatient medical setting, as well as preliminary findings from a quality improvement pilot project integrating behavioral health consultation into a family medicine residency inpatient service.

Objectives:

1.   Identify common behavioral health concerns in the inpatient medical setting.
2.   List elements of effective consultation-liaison services in the inpatient medical setting.
3.  Describe how integration of behavioral health consultation into the inpatient medical setting contributes to positively impacting the Quadruple Aim.

Yajaira Johnson-Esparza, PhD
Assistant Professor/Clinical
Department of Family & Community Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Financial Disclosures:

Yajaira Johnson-Esparza, PhD has no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Marcy Wiemers, MD, Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Margaret Finley, Maureen Alvarado, DO, Richel Avery, MD, Inez I. Cruz, PhD, and Nichole Rubio) have no relevant financial relationships to commercial interests to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Long San Antonio School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The Long School of Medicine designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu