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AHRQ Integration Academy - From Coding to Braiding: Strategies for Financing and Sustaining Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings Share Icon SHARE Wed, Jun 10 2026, 1 - 2:30pm EDT

https://integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/news-and-events/calendar/event/24131?oy1-4-AN Financing remains one of the biggest barriers to integrating behavioral health and primary care, but there are strategies that can help. Join the AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care on Wednesday, June 10, from 1:00–2:30pm ET for a webinar on financing and sustaining integrated behavioral health (IBH) in primary care settings. The session will provide an inside look at the new Integrated Behavioral Health Financing Toolkit and explore practical approaches to building sustainable IBH funding models across primary care, health systems, safety net settings, and rural communities. Attendees will learn how practices can move beyond fee-for-service reimbursement by leveraging braided financing strategies, to include alternative payment models, grants, philanthropy, graduate medical education funding, and internal cross-subsidization. The webinar will also feature a case example of a rural health clinic using the IBH Financing Toolkit to add a behavioral health consultant to address opioid use disorder and suicide risk. This exercise will illustrate how organizations can combine revenue streams, optimize coding and billing, strengthen EHR capabilities, and build community partnerships to support IBH implementation and long-term sustainability.

Toolkit for Improving Skin Care and MDRO Prevention in Long-Term Care

https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/mdro-ltc/index.html Infection prevention training can be evidence based and engaging. A new escape room-style game in the AHRQ Toolkit for Improving Skin Care and MDRO Prevention in Long-Term Care brings a collaborative, story-driven tabletop experience to post-acute and long-term care settings, transforming how staff learn and apply essential practices. In the tabletop game, players respond to changes in a resident’s skin condition and work with environmental services staff, a physician, an infection preventionist and the resident. They reinforce core topics such as skin assessment, hand hygiene, contact precautions, enhanced barrier precautions and environmental cleaning. https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/mdro-ltc/teachable-moments-1.html#:~:text=Safe%20key%20strategies.-,Protect%20Skin%2C%20Prevent%20Infection Across four themed rooms, teams solve puzzles and crack a code to advance. The game highlights the role every staff member plays in infection prevention, emphasizing teamwork, communication and critical thinking. Free resources, including the user guide and printable materials, are available online and were developed as part of the AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention, which has been implemented in more than 300 facilities nationwide. Read more about the game in Caring for the Ages. https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(25)00320-8/fulltext Escape the Infection: An Interactive Game to Engage Staff in Infection Prevention and Control in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Robin L.P. Jump, MD, PhD ∙ Morgan J. Katz, MD, MHS ∙ Heather Stoltzfus, RN, MPH, CIC ∙ … ∙ Leyi Lin, MD ∙ Melissa A. Miller, MD, MS ∙ Lisa L. Maragakis, MD, MPH

Webinar: Making Safety a Core Value: Building the Foundation

https://www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/index.html The National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety, a collective effort of federal agencies and private partners, aims to improve the safety of patients and the healthcare workforce to catalyze change by applying known harm reduction strategies and sharing best practices and lessons learned. The National Action Alliance envisions a future with safe care everywhere and zero preventable harm for all. On Jan. 27, AHRQ’s National Action Alliance staff hosted “Making Safety a Core Value: Building the Foundation,” the first webinar in a series spotlighting the findings from the Best Practices to Strengthen Safety Culture, Leadership and Governance report and change package. Moderated by Martin J. Hatlie, J.D., of Patients for Patient Safety U.S., the event featured real-world insights from three leading healthcare systems on how they operationalize safety as a true organizational core value. This topic aligns with its mission to pursue a total systems approach to improving safety that aligns with the first element of the National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety’s four foundational elements of safety: culture, leadership and governance; patient and family engagement; workforce safety; and learning health system development. Access other previous webinars and register for upcoming events on the National Action Alliance: Webinars page. https://www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/webinars/core-value-foundation.html https://www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/webinars/index.html

Join AHRQ EPC Grand Rounds Session May 6 on Dental Services

https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/news/may-2026-grand-rounds Join the AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program Grand Rounds webinar on Medicare coverage for dental services. This session will present findings from an AHRQ–CMS interagency collaboration examining the relationship between dental services and health outcomes tied to Medicare-covered care, including implications for the Physician Fee Schedule. Speakers will review current evidence on the impact of dental care on health outcomes, with a focus on patients undergoing cancer treatment and those with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Topics include the role of pretreatment dental care in reducing complications such as oral infections, mucositis and osteonecrosis in cancer patients, as well as the association between oral health and CKD outcomes. The webinar also will address evidence gaps and key policy considerations related to Medicare coverage of dental services. Register for the webinar, scheduled for 2-4 p.m. ET May 6. Learn more about the Grand Rounds series. https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/about/webinars The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) Program, following the program's 25th Anniversary Grand Rounds series in 2022, introduces a new series of Grand Rounds to promote and facilitate the use of EPC evidence reports in healthcare. With support from the Scientific Resource Center (SRC) of the EPC Program and AcademyHealth, these meetings feature presentations from EPC report authors followed by discussions with stakeholders to explore EPC report findings.