Simone Hall, ARNP works for Community Health Center of Snohomish County, a federally qualified health center, as a psychiatric ARNP and behavioral health clinical director. She supervises 8 other staff and performs various administrative duties. In her clinical work, she provides psychiatric evaluation, consultation, and medication management for primary care patients. She works with patients that have a variety of mental health conditions and come from diverse backgrounds, most of whom are underserved.
Ms. Hall’s hope is to improve her knowledge base in the deliverance of care to populations served in the integrated care setting and become a more efficient and effective consulting provider for her primary care colleagues. She also hopes to learn more about the implementation of telepsychiatry, especially in a setting where resources may be scarce.
She believes her participation will improve the quality of care that is provided within her organization. With the knowledge that she gains from this fellowship, perhaps her organization will be able to utilize their resources more efficiently so that a greater number of patients can utilize their mental health services.
Five years from now, Ms. Hall’s hope is that Collaborative Care/integrated care is the normative approach for all outpatient settings in Washington state and becomes a model that more states adopt.