Podcast 137: The Stigmas within Healthcare Regarding Behavioral Health with Spencer Hutchins

7:35 -7:40 Spencer: “…we tried to change the way that behavioral health is delivered across the country.”

10:29 – 10:37 John: “I feel like behavioral health is a maligned industry and certainly that people’s needs are just not being met, to your point earlier.”

15:02 – 15:17 Spencer: “…their underlying anxiety disorder is what causes them to go to the emergency department nine times that year, because when they can’t breathe well from their CFPD, it exacerbates with an uncontrolled anxiety disorder and creates panic attacks.”

16:38 – 16:57 Spencer: “So the first is to screen for everybody using these basic tools, like there’s a nine question, a tool called the PHQ-9, which is common. And those are really important because we know probably about half the people that present don’t bring up depression, and it’s not obvious that they have it in a seven-minute encounter.” 

29:16 – 29:32 Spencer: “So we think of collaborative care as a way to redefine what primary care means and to be effective, and we think that’ll be huge. It also creates a scaffolding and infrastructure that helps identify patients that [may] have different or more acute needs.”