CCBHC

CCBHCs are held to a high standard of care. They must:

• Help people improve their health by making it easier to get into treatment.
• Keep people from going into the hospital when they don’t need hospital care.
• Make services available no matter your ability to pay or where you live.
• Offer 24/7 mobile crisis response.
• Integrate evidence-based addiction and mental health services, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for addiction.
• Provide high-quality care, with timely access, quality reporting, and staffing and coordination of social services, criminal justice, and education systems.
• Build better relationships between hospitals and community health care providers.

CCBHCs must provide nine core services to promote physical and mental healthcare integration for anyone served within the CCBHC. They are:

1. Crisis mental health services: 24-hour mobile crisis teams, emergency crisis intervention services, and crisis stabilization.
2. Screening, assessment, and diagnosis.
3. Patient-centered treatment planning or similar processes. This includes risk assessment and crisis planning.
4. Outpatient mental health and substance use disorder services.
5. Outpatient clinic primary care screening. This includes a review of key health indicators and health risks.
6. Targeted case management.
7. Psychiatric rehabilitation services.
8. Peer support, counselor services, and family supports.
9. Intensive, community-based mental healthcare for members of the armed forces and veterans, particularly those members and veterans located in rural areas.