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“It’s Time for a Revolution”
State Mental Health System
Reorganization
NAMI National Convention
June 20, 2005
“It’s Time for Systems Change”
“……..Systems change is a complex and multi-faceted
construct that may be approached in a variety of fashions.
….Evolution views the transformation of systems as a
necessarily slow and ongoing process that requires
consensus among all levels of stakeholders about changes
in attitude and behavior.
…..Revolution reflects stakeholder impatience with slow
change seeking to replace tortuous evolutions with more
immediate and dramatic modifications in status quo.”
Patrick Corrigan, University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric
Rehabilitation
THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
SYSTEM IS IN DISARRAY
The Commission is united in the belief that
the mental health service delivery system
needs dramatic reform. It is becoming
clear that the mental health services
system does not adequately serve millions
of people who need care.
New Freedom Commission, Interim Report
10/29/02
2003 NAMI TRIAD REPORT:
SHATTERED LIVES
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3,400 individuals/families with SMI – 50 states
responded
62% never married – 80% dependent on
disability and support from others – ½ with
diagnosis of schizophrenia – 44% - criminal
justice contact -60% had more than 1 diagnosis.
99% received medication – 85% hospitalized
Less than 1/3rd had access to effective & valued
interventions
Flowchart For Problem Resolution
NO
YES
Is It Working?
Don’t Mess With It!
YES
Did You Mess
With It?
YOU IDIOT!
NO
Anyone Else
Knows?
NO
Hide It
YES
You’re SCREWED!
NO
Can You Blame
Someone Else?
Yes
NO PROBLEM!
YES
Will it Blow Up
In Your Hands?
NO
Look The Other Way
BOIL IT ALL DOWN?
“If you ran your business the way
the state ran its mental health
system you’d be out of business.”
Texas Revolution
HB 2292
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Consolidation of Health & Human Services
Agencies
Reprioritize Existing Resources
Implement Disease Management & Jail
Diversion Strategies
Supplemental Rebates, Preferred Drug List (No
Carve outs)
HB 2292 - TRANSFORMATION
OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
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Consolidation of 12 to 5
Department of State Health Services includes
physical health, mental health and substance abuse
(3 agencies to 1)
Transformation into a customer-focused health and
human services “enterprise”
Operate like GE – Jack Welch
Departments will focus on client needs and program
delivery
Performance goals and successful outcomes
HB 2292
Sec. 533.0354
Redefined our Priority Population to serve:
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Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder
Severe Clinical Depression
Children with serious emotional
disturbances
Implements Disease Management for each illness
Prevalence, Severity, and Unmet Need – Prevalence &
Severity of Mental Disorders, 6/2/2004
www.jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/291/21/2581
Sec. 533.0354 (Cont’d)
Recovery Based
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Old system – programs decided what services to
offer & person was expected to fit into the
available services
Person only guaranteed to get crisis, hospital &
medications
Disease Management is based on specific
diagnosis and level of need
The service system is arrayed to deliver the
services matched to what the person needs
Focused on a process of recovery
Sec. 533.0354 (Cont’d)
Accountable Care System
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Guidelines for consistent levels of care across
the system – hospital and community services
Utilizing sound business practices
Performance-based contracting
Fee for Service
The delivery system WILL BE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE
www.dshs.state.tx.us/mhprograms/FinalRDM
Report.pdf
Sec. 533.0354 & SB 1145
CIVIL SIDE JAIL DIVERSION
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Targets appropriate services for individuals with
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – as in disease
management – plus collaboration with TCOOMMI, CIT
Training, Mental Health Courts
Allows an urban area to prioritize its available funding for
programs designed to divert persons with mental illness
from jail
Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical and
Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI) An agency created by the
legislature to work with adult and juvenile offenders with
mental impairments in the criminal justice system to place
them on separate paths from regular offenders.
www.tdcj.state.tx.us/tcomi/tcomi-home.htm
Sec. 531.069, Preferred Drug List
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Supplemental Rebates, PDL & PA required of all
drugs (No Carve Out for Behavioral Health)
P & T Committee must exercise clinical judgment
Option to place supplemental rebate into Alternate
Benefit Program
Results – Open Access Redefined
PA Protocol - Texas Medication Algorithm
www.hhsc.state.tx.us/HCF/vdp/PT/PT.html
CONTACT INFORMATION
JOE LOVELACE
Executive Director
NAMI Texas
512/799-6294
[email protected]