GERMANE & WISE uses its behavioral health care integration model to assist LCSWs working in primary care clinics to provide faster, better care to their patients.

In our experience, integrated LCSWs provide extremely valuable care to clients, but we also hear about the struggles of these critical frontline behavioral health practitioners:

• Some LCSWs find themselves pinned down by the clerical and administrative labor involved in their clinic’s intake process.

• Others are inundated by the sheer volume of intake interviews for patients with behavioral health concerns; the workflow can become and administrative treadmill, keeping the LCSW from providing the actual treatment the patient desperately needs, and sometimes forcing the provider to refer patients away from their clinic.

• Others speak of working hard to understand their patients’ needs, only to have their knowledge and experience belittled by out-of-clinic psychiatrists.

The team at Germane & Wise places a high value on the work of in-house LCSWs, and we listen carefully to their needs and wishes, tailoring our services to help relieve intake burdens and free them up to do their highest and best work - helping patients with everything from talk therapy to behavior change techniques. If a patient requires the help of a psychiatrist, Germane & Wise’s practitioners are there to consult with both the LCSW and the primary care physician to determine the best course of care for the patient. Germane & Wise’s specialty trained psychiatric assistants can carry other burdens, too, like triaging behavioral health phone calls.

If you’re finding that providing behavioral health care treatment at your clinic is feeling more and more like a treadmill, we can help.