Center for Integrated Primary Care

The Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC) is a closely affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. The CIPC also maintains strong links to the departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN. The CIPC maintains close links with other centers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School including centers that address primary care practice, people with disabilities, health policy, distributed medical training and quantitative medicine. The CIPC was founded in 2011 and its Director is Alexander Blount, Ed.D., a nationally known figure in the integration of behavioral health care and primary care.
The CIPC reaches out to meet the three elements of its mission: workforce development, technical assistance and evaluation services. It currently offers training for mental health and substance abuse professionals in how to succeed as behavioral health clinicians in primary care, and for care managers in integrated (health and behavioral health) care management for the Patient Centered Medical Home. Other training programs targeted for administrators and physicians are in development.
The CIPC also works to support the integration of Behavioral Health Services in the affiliated UMass Memorial Health Care system.
Since 2007 the Certificate Program in Primary Care Behavioral Health has served as a model program in developing the workforce for the provision of behavioral health services in primary care.

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