The next chapter to advance integrated care starts now.

Colorado
 is Ready

The Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM) accelerated our progress integrating care. But the work's not done. As Colorado SIM concludes, we are ready to keep the momentum going — together.

“Colorado Is Ready” is a rally point for all of Colorado stakeholders integrating care to show their readiness and commitment to keep the momentum going by:

  • Connecting with stakeholders across sectors to inspire the motivation to continue
  • Demonstrating our readiness with a visible, collaborative social media effort
  • Listening to one another’s experiences and elevating our voices across sectors

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We are better together. By pooling our abilities and knowledge, we can be successful in sustaining integrated behavioral health.”

Efforts to advance integrated care continue beyond SIM

The four-year Colorado SIM Initiative was a powerful accelerator that advanced efforts to integrate care. It brought together major health and healthcare actors in the state, identified common priorities, created understanding, fostered partnerships, and gathered best practices.

Colorado SIM’s efforts were always about creating an environment where the workforce and cross-sector partners could drive integration efforts forward. With advancements to integrating care underway across the state, it’s up to us to build on the momentum Colorado SIM helped to achieve — it’d be a waste not to.


What is Colorado SIM?



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Transforming Colorado’s Access to Integrated Care

The Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM) was a Governor’s Office initiative to support health care providers in integrating behavioral and physical health care and gaining the skills they need to succeed with alternative payment models. Colorado SIM was created in December 2014 when Colorado was awarded up to $65 million in the form of a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The overarching goal of Colorado SIM sought to improve the health of Coloradans by increasing access to integrated physical and behavioral healthcare services in coordinated community systems, with value-based payment structures, for 80 percent of state residents by 2019. Colorado SIM was built on the strong evidence that treating physical health, mental health and substance use disorders together reduces or avoids unnecessary health care costs and addresses the ever-increasing burden of chronic disease.

Learn more here:
https://www.colorado.gov/healthinnovation/resources-supporting-integrated-care

 
 
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Cross-sector partnerships improve our ability to address all the things that keep people healthy both in and outside of our clinic.” – Clinician Readiness Respondent

Across Colorado, we are ready to advance integration

In early 2019, Colorado SIM and the Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center fielded an assessment of Colorado stakeholders’ “readiness” — their motivation and capacity — to continue cross-sector partnerships that advance integrated care. In short — Colorado is ready.

The Readiness survey results indicate:

  • Cross-sector partners are ready to tackle the remaining challenges of integrating care, leveraging one another’s strengths and expertise. Stakeholders understand cross-sector partnerships are an effective strategy to advance integration.
  • Cross-sector partnerships fit well with how stakeholders already operate, and these partnerships are improving over time.
  • The next chapter to advance integrated care starts now. And, it’s going to be authored by all of us working in partnership across sectors.

 


What is Readiness?



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The Intersection of Motivation, Capacity, and Innovation

Assessing readiness is critical for an in-depth understanding of the current state of cross-sector partnerships to expand access to integrated care across Colorado. Readiness data can illuminate areas of strength in cross-sector partnerships, as well as opportunities where more focused attention would benefit existing partnerships. Additionally, it can surface trends in sector-based readiness to continue the work of partnering.

The Readiness for Cross-Sector Partnerships (RCP) scale was administered to stakeholders in March 2019. The RCP is an adapted evidence-based assessment that measures organizational readiness to engage in meaningful cross-sector partnerships. As a broad measure of the extent to which an organization is willing and able to participate in partnerships, the RCP is comprised of three components:

  • Motivation: the extent to which an organization wants to participate in cross-sector partnerships
  • Innovation-specific Capacity: specific knowledge, skills, abilities, and resources required to sustain and advance cross-sector partnerships for integrated behavioral health
  • General Capacity: the overall functioning (effectiveness) of an organization
 

 

Show Your Readiness

Across Colorado, individuals working in a variety of health sectors are ready to advance integrated care. But readiness is hard to recognize. We want to change that and need your help.

Colorado Is Ready is a movement to motivate our colleagues across sectors to maintain energy and momentum in efforts to advance access to integrated care in our state. Collaborating together, we’ll transform our intangible collective readiness into an undeniable and enduring pursuit of optimal wellness.

  • Share the readiness content below with your network to spread the word, insights, and perspectives on integrating care

 

Participating in this effort is simple

  • Join our LinkedIn group to connect with colleagues across sectors and invite others to deepen the conversation
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  • Update your profile image on LinkedIn with the “I’m Ready” icon at the right, to make your readiness visible
  • Share the readiness content below to spread the word, insights, and perspectives on integrating on integrating care with your network


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