Accend's Behavioral Health Home (BHH) services provide an opportunity to build a person-centered system of care that achieves improved outcomes for individuals and reduced costs to the health care system. BHH aims to serve the whole person across primary care, mental health, substance use disorder treatment, long-term services and supports, and social service components of our health care delivery system.

Core services include:

• Comprehensive care management
• Care coordination
• Health and wellness promotion
• Comprehensive transitional care
• Individual and family support
• Referral to community and social services

Our service goals are:

• Improve health outcomes (preventative, routine, treatment of health conditions) of individuals.
• Improve experience of care for the individual.
• Improve the quality of life and wellness of the individual.
• Reduce health care costs.

Eligibility

To be eligible for behavioral health home services, a person must have serious mental illness (SMI) or emotional disturbance (ED) and have a current diagnostic assessment as performed or reviewed by a mental health professional.

If you are receiving the following services, you may not also receive BHH services:

• Mental health targeted case management (MH-TCM)
• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) or Youth Assertive Community Treatment (YouthACT)
• Relocation service coordination targeted case management(RSC-TCM)
• Vulnerable adult/developmental disability targeted case management(VA/DD-TCM)
• Health care homes care coordination