Behavior Health Accessibility
West Front Primary Care is pleased to announce a new partnership with Janus
Healthcare Partners to introduce Collaborative Care. This collaboration reflects West Front’s dedication to supporting patients’ whole health—both physical and emotional—by expanding access to behavioral health services. Through this partnership, West Front providers can now connect patients with Janus’s Collaborative Care program, offering more consistent, evidence-based support for behavioral health needs within the comfort of primary care.
Partnership Benefits
The benefits of this partnership:
- Greater access to Behavioral Health support
- Telehealth visits for your convenience
- Better prescription integration because of communication with primary care providers
- A more collaborative approach to mental health with more open communication
(Note: You must talk with your primary care provider to get an appointment.)
Commitment To Health
The West Front partnership with Janus is in line with the organization’s longstanding commitment to driving quality initiatives, having built the practice around best practices of patient centered medical home (PCMH), differentiated care management programs and value-based contracting, among other initiatives.
Janus has demonstrated deep commitment to delivering integrated behavioral health in Michigan, and is forging strong relationships with physician organizations, payers and providers across the state.
Core Tenents
Janus’s turnkey CoCM program is built around these core tenets:
- Data driven approach for identifying patients in need of support for depression and anxiety: Janus leverages proactive population health data analytics to identify patients in need of care, a paradigm-shift in primary care where more than half of the people who struggle with depression and/or anxiety do not get adequate access.
- Primary care providers make warm handoffs to behavioral health providers:
Providers in the GLPO network work closely with a dedicated team of Janus’ behavioral health care managers and enrollment specialists to provide immediate access to care, which reduces the reliance on referrals to external providers. - Patients receive evidence-based clinical interventions: Behavioral health clinicians work with patients to deliver best-practice psychotherapy, medication management, and psychiatric oversight. Working in tandem with primary care, Janus’ whole-person approach addresses behavioral health and health behaviors.
- Psychiatric consultations support the primary care provider: Janus provides
consulting psychiatrists as part of the CoCM team who conduct systematic case review to ensure patients make progress with their care plans, and implement data-informed adjustments for patients who are not improving. - The care team is aligned around measurement-based care: An essential element of Collaborative Care is the regular review of behavioral health symptoms, with frequent assessment of patients’ symptom severity using evidence-based tools such as PHQ-9 and GAD-7.