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Grand Rapids Business Journal Priority Health now offers incentives to health care providers who complete staff education related to the Behavioral Health Collaborative Care model and implement plans for integrating the model into their practices. The Behavioral Health Collaborative Care model is an evidence-based care approach to integrating behavioral health into primary care based on a program developed by the University of Washington AIMS Center. This model supports the interaction of behavioral health care managers, primary care physicians and psychiatric consultants. Mike Jasperson Cou...

SPR's Doug Nadvornick reports. There are signs that Covid pandemic life is moving closer to what used to be normal. Dan Barth from Frontier Behavioral Health in Spokane says that became clear to him last weekend at a cafe in Spokane Valley. “There was a group of women, there was five of them sitting on a couch. They were all obviously vaccinated. They didn’t have to wear masks. They were sitting there socializing and they were talking about what they’d been through over the last year and they were laughing and it gave me a sense that the trajectory of where we are on seemed to be a good...

Grand Rapids Business Journal Priority Health welcomes Praveen Thadani as the company’s new president, effective next month. “Praveen is a transformative health care leader with extensive industry experience and a passion for innovation and developing talent,” said Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Spectrum Health, the integrated system that includes Priority Health. “His commitment to building relationships with members, employers, agents and providers will help us maintain the momentum we have created as we continue working to provide affordable access to care and have a pos...

Grand Rapids Business Journal Courtesy Priority Health Priority Health and the National Fitness Campaign launched a $600,000 statewide partnership to bring outdoor fitness courts to communities across Michigan. The project was formed to fight obesity, improve quality of life and create equitable access to exercise for communities around the state. Priority Health fitness courts will be constructed in easily accessible public spaces with the goal of building 15 more courts in the next 18 months. The National Fitness Campaign’s (NFC) award-winning initiative is now supporting more than 150 c...