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As the most common access point for health care in the United States, primary care physicians–including family physicians, internal medicine physicians, pediatricians, and obstetrician gynecologists–stand at the front line of ensuring the highest possible level of physical and behavioral health for people throughout their lifetime. Our goal is to achieve this while dealing with the difficulties of a limited amount of time dealing with patients and, often, insufficient resources.

However, the current programs are not meeting the demand for holistic care that address the impact of trauma and stressors in life that have only increased in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There are more people today than they ever before are struggling with their mental health issues and mental health, which includes both and addiction disorders. We believe that the systems of primary care need to immediately embrace an entirely new paradigm, speeding up the use BHI (BHI) in the practice of physicians and addressing the escalating rise in unmet demands.

To facilitate such efforts, eight of top physician groups in the country — which we have led or run—set up the BHI Collaborative. It has the aim of empowering doctors and their teams of care to enhance the quality of care provided and improve access for patients to services for behavioral health. The BHI Collaborative and the practices of physicians it supports, are not able be able to tackle these issues by themselves.

To speed up the adoption of BHI and effectively combat the issue Physician practices need the collaboration of other players in the health care industry including employers, payers, health plans — and the decision makers.