Susan Marney, ARNP has been a psychiatric nurse practitioner for over 20 years and currently practices at Catholic Charities in Wenatchee, Washington where she works primarily with children and adolescents. Catholic Charities is in the process of integrating with medicine and she is the first practitioner to spend part of each week in a pediatric setting partnering with Columbia Valley Community Health to help provide integrated care.
Ms. Marney was previously the director of the Behavioral Health Department at Confluence Health and worked closely with administration and medical practitioners to move from a co-location model to an integrated one. She has a strong interest in finding ways to integrate services from a patient-centered perspective where relationships with patients are made stronger. She and her colleagues are at the forefront of designing a medical home for the chronically mentally ill and children who are in fragile circumstances and require intensive outpatient care.
Ms. Marney hopes that five years from now, the barriers between agencies in her community will be gone and patients will be able to easily and effectively get their medical and mental health needs met by practitioners who are skilled and well-connected to their patients and to each other.