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Brown JD, Stewart KA, Miller RL, Dehus E, Rose T, DeWitt K, Chapman R, Wishon A, Breslau J, Dey J, Jacobus-Kantor L. Impacts of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Demonstration on Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations. Psychiatr Serv 2023; 74:911-920. [PMID: 36916061 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20220410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration is designed to increase access to comprehensive ambulatory care and crisis services, which may reduce emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations. This study examined whether the demonstration had an impact on ED visits and hospitalizations in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. METHODS This difference-in-differences analysis used Medicaid claims data from 2015 to 2019 to examine service use during a 12-month baseline period and the first 24 months of the demonstration for beneficiaries who received care from CCBHCs and beneficiaries who received care from other behavioral health clinics in the same state, representing care as usual. Propensity score methods were used to develop treatment and comparison groups with similar characteristics. RESULTS In Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, beneficiaries who received care from CCBHCs had a statistically significant reduction in the average number of behavioral health ED visits, relative to the comparison group (13% and 11% reductions, respectively); no impact on ED visits in Missouri was observed. The demonstration was associated with a statistically significant reduction in all-cause hospitalizations in Oklahoma, when the analysis used a 2-year rather than a 1-year baseline period, and also in Pennsylvania, when hospitalizations were truncated at the 98th percentile to exclude beneficiaries with outlier hospitalization rates. CONCLUSIONS The CCBHC demonstration reduced behavioral health ED visits in two states, and the study also revealed some evidence of reductions in hospitalizations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jonathan D Brown
- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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- Mathematica, Washington, D.C. (Brown, Stewart, Miller, Dehus, Rose, Wishon); Verana Health, San Francisco (DeWitt, Chapman); RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh (Breslau); Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. (Dey, Jacobus-Kantor)
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Adams DR, Williams NJ, Becker-Haimes EM, Skriner L, Shaffer L, DeWitt K, Neimark G, Jones DT, Beidas RS. Therapist Financial Strain and Turnover: Interactions with System-Level Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices. Adm Policy Ment Health 2020; 46:713-723. [PMID: 31203492 DOI: 10.1007/s10488-019-00949-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Therapist turnover is a major problem in community mental health. Financial strain, which is composed of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to the experience of economic hardship, is an understudied antecedent of therapist turnover given the tumultuous financial environment in community mental health. We prospectively examined the relationship between therapist financial strain and turnover in 247 therapists in 28 community mental health agencies. We expected greater therapist financial strain to predict higher turnover and participation in a system-funded evidence-based practice (EBP) training initiative to alleviate this effect. Controlling for covariates, financial strain predicted therapist turnover (OR 1.12, p = .045), but not for therapists who participated in an EBP training initiative. Reducing financial strain and/or promoting EBP implementation may be levers to reduce turnover.
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- Danielle R Adams
- School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Office 3015, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Office 3015, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.,Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Office 3015, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.,Evidence-Based Practitioners of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Office 3015, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.,University of Texas, Southwestern, TX, Dallas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Office 3015, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.,Qualtrics, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Office 3015, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. .,Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .,Penn Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (PISCE@LDI), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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We report the homofermentative production of lactate in Escherichia coli strains containing mutations in the aceEF, pfl, poxB, and pps genes, which encode the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, pyruvate formate lyase, pyruvate oxidase, and phosphoenolpyruvate synthase, respectively. The process uses a defined medium and two distinct fermentation phases: aerobic growth to an optical density of about 30, followed by nongrowth, anaerobic production. Strain YYC202 (aceEF pfl poxB pps) generated 90 g/liter lactate in 16 h during the anaerobic phase (with a yield of 0.95 g/g and a productivity of 5.6 g/liter . h). Ca(OH)(2) was found to be superior to NaOH for pH control, and interestingly, significant succinate also accumulated (over 7 g/liter) despite the use of N(2) for maintaining anaerobic conditions. Strain ALS961 (YYC202 ppc) prevented succinate accumulation, but growth was very poor. Strain ALS974 (YYC202 frdABCD) reduced succinate formation by 70% to less than 3 g/liter. (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance analysis using uniformly labeled acetate demonstrated that succinate formation by ALS974 was biochemically derived from acetate in the medium. The absence of uniformly labeled succinate, however, demonstrated that glyoxylate did not reenter the tricarboxylic acid cycle via oxaloacetate. By minimizing the residual acetate at the time that the production phase commenced, the process with ALS974 achieved 138 g/liter lactate (1.55 M, 97% of the carbon products), with a yield of 0.99 g/g and a productivity of 6.3 g/liter . h during the anaerobic phase.
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- Y Zhu
- Center for Molecular BioEngineering, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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