Uplifting Rural Communities

To help celebrate and recognize National Recovery Month, we are bringing you another limited-edition month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our fourth episode and our discussion with Amy Herschell, PhD, associate vice president, Program Implementation and Evaluation, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, part of the UPMC Insurance Services Division, and Jessica Meyers, MSEd, senior advisor for implementation, UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care.

National Recovery Month serves as a critical opportunity to address disparities in behavioral health care, especially in rural and underserved communities, areas that often face challenges like limited access to care, which highlights the need for funding to help reduce administrative burdens and support interventions tailored to these communities’ unique needs. In this conversation, we discuss why collaborative payer-provider-community relationships are essential in implementing grant-funded initiatives that integrate physical and behavioral health care, helping to ensure that programs remain sustainable beyond initial funding, and how, as we look ahead, National Recovery Month can drive future efforts by spotlighting successful initiatives and inspiring continued funding for innovative health solutions.

We hope you learn something new from this series, and we look forward to bringing you future episodes. Please tune in next Monday for our final episode in this series.

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