The project titled An Innovative System of Community-Based Integrated Care for Serious Mental Illness evaluates an intervention for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). The intervention is a “clubhouse” psychosocial rehabilitation approach created and used by Foundation House to help improve healthcare by addressing whole-life needs for individuals with SMI who are disconnected from primary care. 

Dr. Tod Mijanovich and the research team at NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYU GSOM) is investigating whether the intervention: 

• enhances primary care engagement,
• decreases acute care utilization,
• reduces healthcare expenditures, and
• influences patient-reported outcomes, including social isolation and quality of life.

Dr. Tod Mijanovich is a principal investigator at NYU Steinhardt and provides expertise on the New York Medicaid infrastructure. He also works on building analytical datasets from the Medicaid data and advanced analytical methods to study impact.

This is a subaward from NYU GSOM and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This project involves a partnership between a Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO), Healthfirst, and a community-based organization (CBO), Fountain House.