Boston, MA. – February 6, 2025 – Today, Janus Healthcare Partners (Janus) has announced a strategic partnership with Great Lakes Physicians Organization (GLPO), in which Janus will deliver integrated behavioral health with participating practices across Michigan.
GLPO is an independent physician organization built upon a mission to support the success of independent physicians throughout the state of Michigan. GLPO’s approximately 350 practitioners are highly regarded and recognized in the state of Michigan for quality of care while delivering superior outcomes and low costs for care. Janus offers best-in-class integrated care, following the evidence-based Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM), with a proven, turnkey model aligned with the Quadruple Aim in healthcare.
“GLPO is founded on a model which supports physicians who prioritize patient centered, holistic care” Shay Raleigh, Executive Director of GLPO said. “The resources that our partnership with Janus will bring to our physician practices helps deliver unprecedented access to evidence-based behavioral health, aligned with our mission of providing efficient, cost-effective health care and improving outcomes.”
“Janus is dedicated to transforming health care delivery in partnership with local physicians, adding much needed behavioral health resources to extend the reach of their practices,” said Nicholas Tcherepnin, CEO of Janus. “GLPO’s commitment to improving health care outcomes directly correlates to the mission of Janus. I look forward to the possibilities our collaboration brings to GLPO physicians, their practices, and their patients.”
Key tenets of the turnkey CoCM program that Janus delivers include:
- Data driven approach for identifying patients in need of support for depression and anxiety: Janus leverages proactive population health data analytics to identify patients in need of care, a paradigm-shift in primary care where more than half of the people who struggle with depression and/or anxiety do not get adequate access.
- Primary care providers make warm handoffs to behavioral health providers: Providers in the GLPO network work closely with a dedicated team of Janus’ behavioral health care managers and enrollment specialists to provide immediate access to care, which reduces the reliance on referrals to external providers.
- Patients receive evidence-based clinical interventions: Behavioral health clinicians work with patients to deliver best-practice psychotherapy, medication management, and psychiatric oversight. Working in tandem with primary care, Janus’ whole-person approach addresses behavioral health and health behaviors.
- Psychiatric consultations support the primary care provider: Janus provides consulting psychiatrists as part of the CoCM team who conduct systematic case review to ensure patients make progress with their care plans, and implement data-informed adjustments for patients who are not improving.
- The care team is aligned around measurement-based care: An essential element of Collaborative Care is the regular review of behavioral health symptoms, with frequent assessment of patients’ symptom severity using evidence-based tools such as PHQ-9 and GAD-7.
The GLPO partnership with Janus is in line with the organization’s longstanding commitment to driving quality initiatives for its member practices, supporting practice transformation such as patient centered medical home (PCMH) and value-based contracting.
Janus has demonstrated deep commitment to delivering integrated behavioral health in in Michigan, and is forging strong relationships with physician organizations, payers, providers across the state.
About Janus Healthcare Partners
Janus Healthcare Partners is a leading Psychiatric Collaborative Care company that brings integrated behavioral health care to health systems, physician groups, accountable care organizations and other health care providers. Janus addresses unmet behavioral health needs of the patient population and improves outcomes, all in close collaboration with patients’ medical providers. Founded on the best-practice Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model, Janus delivers turn-key clinical services including all of the clinical resources, care management and technology-enablement to provide seamless access to patients in need of behavioral health care. Learn more here www.janushcp.com
About Great Lakes Physicians Organization
Great Lakes Physician Organization is an independent physician organization comprised of approximately 350 members across central Michigan spanning 19 counties. GLPO is a physician-owned, physician-led organization and offers administrative and clinical support to member physicians to further population health goals. GLPO is headquartered in Midland, Michigan.
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