Enhancing Behavioral Healthcare
The Child & Family Health Collaborative of Ohio is the leading community behavioral healthcare network in Ohio. With a focus on children and families, our clinically integrated network encompasses provider agencies in every region of the state, 3,500+ health care practitioners, and collectively serves more than 60,000+ clients each year. Together, we are enhancing our behavioral healthcare performance, quality, and efficiency to improve outcomes for kids and families.
Our Goal
We aim to advance whole health outcomes for children and families in Ohio by bringing Ohio’s behavioral health providers together to achieve the Triple Aim: promote best practices in patient experience, advance population health and reduce costs.
Our Quality Approach
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Led by a Quality Committee of clinical leaders from provider organizations.
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Provides general oversight of the Collaborative’s quality-related activities,
performance reports, policies, training resources and practices that relate to client health, providing access to cost-effective quality health care and advancing safety and efficacy for members. -
Utilizes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) framework as a basis for clinical quality improvement.
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Leverages data provided by our payor partners and Ohio’s health information exchange (HIE) to inform our performance and equip our network with the resources and notifications needed to provide timely care.
Quality Measures
• Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness (FUH)
• Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visits for Mental Illness (FUM)
• Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visits for Substance Use/Abuse (FUA)
• Reducing Unnecessary Inpatient Utilization
• Reducing Unnecessary Emergency Department Utilization
• Reducing Readmission within 30 Days of Discharge
National vs. Collaborative
Performance Measures
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Member Benefits
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Participation in Ohio's first and largest clinically integrated network of community behavioral health care providers.
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Collaboration and support with like-minded agencies.
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Opportunities to join provider workgroups and committees focused on issues impacting behavioral health providers
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Access to behavioral health billing and coding consultants.
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Provider Relations support to escalate and assist with claims issues.
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Quality Improvement resources to support improved performance in value-based agreements.
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Enhanced payor contract rates and incentive opportunities through value-based agreements.