Justin Bayley, DNP, ARNP is a psychiatric nurse practitioner working in Spokane. His work as a medical nurse started in 2011. His work in mental health began in 2014 as a float pool nurse who frequented the psychiatric units in Sacred Heart hospital. Throughout this experience he saw the necessity of acute care but was frequently frustrated by a lack of outpatient psychiatry services. After much reflection he decided to go back to school to be part of care that contributed to people staying out of the hospital.
Dr. Bayley started his career as a nurse practitioner in 2021 and currently works as a PHMNP at Excelsior Family Medicine. Excelsior is a fast-expanding organization whose background is the treatment of children and their families. Excelsior has continued to grow in its role as a mental health provider with WISe services, a holistic school, primary care, mental health care, and now an inpatient facility specializing in detox, behavioral rehabilitation, day treatment, and young adult residential services transition.
Through participation in the fellowship program, Dr. Bayley hopes to gain methodology and skills to better coordinate services throughout multiple specialties. He is excited to explore the role of integrated care as it pertains to both primary care services and psychiatric services while incorporating their continuity with WISe services. In 5 years, he hopes that fluid coordination can allow for effective access to care with prompt, consistent follow-up between primary care, mental health, and WISe programming.