Program & Services

Clinical Initiatives

Magellan of Arizona Clinical Initiatives

Magellan Health Services of Arizona is working to transform the behavioral health care system in Maricopa County. Our goal is to better serve those in our care who are seeking hope and recovery. In 2010, Magellan will continue the transformation process by focusing on five key initiatives:

Outcomes - This initiative took off with the launch in 2009 of a provider outcomes dashboard for the adult system of care. This innovative tool measures efforts to strengthen the behavioral health system based on a series of core metrics. The online dashboard provides information to service recipients, their families and providers about areas that are working well and those that need improvement. In 2010, Magellan will introduce a version for the children's system.

Suicide Prevention and Intervention - The goal of this initiative is to reduce the suicide rate in Maricopa County. It provides clinical care workers and case managers with the skills, training and resources they need to talk openly and directly about suicide. This program engages family, peers and survivors of suicide and incorporate key race and equity issues.

Health, Wellness and Longevity - The average life expectancy for Arizonans with severe mental illness is reduced by nearly 32 years. To improve the length and quality of life, this initiative will create programs and a mindset throughout the system to address mind and body health and wellness. This involves developing a model of care that combines physical and behavioral health and focuses on strengthening the whole health of the individual.

Crisis Planning - This initiative will support the development of proactive crisis plans for service recipients to assist them before a crisis situation happens. The initiative will also help staff plan for crises, prepare them to provide effective reactive crisis response 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and ensure they follow up after a crisis episode.

Clinical Care - This initiative will help move the system to a model of clinical care management focused on creating therapeutic opportunities for service recipients and away from a broker model of case coordination focused on recipient referrals.

Click HERE to view the Clinical Initiative Framework, which shows the clinical initiatives and how they integrate with Magellan's six cross-cutting leadership principles. This clinical initiatives main page can be reached quickly at any time by using the URL www.MagellanofAZ.com/ClinicalInitiatives.