Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) expands to all nine UW Neighborhood Clinics

Department News | October 31, 2014


Mental health services offered by UW Medicine will increase with the expansion of the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) to all nine UW Neighborhood clinics later this year. BHIP uses the Collaborative Care model developed at UW for treating common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety in primary care. In BHIP, UW psychiatrists work as clinic-based psychiatric consultants who are responsible for supporting mental health care provided by primary care providers and behavioral health care managers as well as providing direct patient consultations. This allows us to reach patients in primary care where many of them present for care and to leverage the skills of psychiatric consultants to reach larger patient populations.