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Article: Our need for 'general contractors': the foundation of proper behavioral healthcare depends on care continuity.(PERSPECTIVES)

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February 1, 2007
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Consider the following: You have just completed work with an architect to design a wonderful new house for your family. After you purchase the site, one team comes to dig and pour the foundation, and another comes to construct the walls. However, the team needed to install the roof never arrives. The walls and foundation are ruined by ice and snow. Unlikely? Not if you neglect to engage a general contractor to organize and mobilize the construction teams in an appropriate sequence. You say, "I would never let this happen to my new house." Why, then, do we allow it to happen to behavioral healthcare services?

Continuity of care has emerged as the crux of a major ...

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