About MagellanofAZ

Sponsorship and Community Reinvestment

 

Caring about a healthy behavioral healthcare system

At Magellan Health Services of Arizona, we believe that a strong and healthy behavioral health system makes Arizona stronger-it helps to attract business and make our community a healthier place to live. Every day, we work in collaboration with our provider and advocate partners, as well as individuals and their families, to help those challenged with mental illness or substance abuse find and maintain recovery, and live full, productive, meaningful lives in the neighborhoods in which they live, work and play.

Magellan is focused on giving back and supporting the community, in particular organizations that align with our key initiatives (Suicide Prevention and Intervention; Health, Wellness and Longevity; Crisis Planning; and Clinical Care) and our leadership principles (Voice; Family; Outcomes; Race and Equity; Provider Collaboration; and Community Integration)-as these initiatives and principles are critical to our mission to support and cultivate a healthy behavioral healthcare system.

Community Reinvestment Initiative to Support Whole Health Programs for Adults and Children

Magellan Health Services of Arizona announced that it is accepting community reinvestment funding applications for innovative programs in Maricopa County that will integrate physical healthcare services with general mental health services, for adults, and behavioral health services for children, to provide a whole health approach to health care for those challenged with mental illness. While significant attention has been paid to the life-span disparity and poor health outcomes of adults with a Serious Mental Illness (SMI), integrated care is an important initiative across all behavioral health populations, and Magellan seeks to enhance coordination, improve outcomes and lower costs through these initiatives.

About our Leadership Principles 

Magellan Health Services of Arizona is driven by a core set of principles in everything we do to transform and improve the behavioral  healthcare system in central Arizona:

• Voice and participation-Give service recipients a voice in their treatment and participation in their recovery.
• Family involvement-Be inclusive of and listen to families, who are a critical component in recovery.
• Outcomes-Focus on recovery and resiliency.
• Community integration-Support integration back into the community where recipients live, work and play.
• Race and equity-Ensure race or ethnicity are not barriers to accessing services; deliver service in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner.
• Provider problem solving and collaboration-Work together to solve problems; listen to those closest to the issues and solutions. 

About our Key Initiatives

Magellan will continue the transformation process by focusing on four key initiatives:

• Suicide Prevention and Intervention-The goal of this initiative is to reduce the suicide rate in Maricopa County and parts of Pinal County. It provides clinical care workers and case managers with the skills, training and resources they need to talk openly and directly about suicide. This program engages family, peers and survivors of suicide and incorporates key race and equity issues.
• Health, Wellness and Longevity-The average life expectancy for Arizonans with severe mental illness is reduced by nearly 32 years. To improve the length and quality of life, this initiative creates programs and a mindset throughout the system to address mind and body health and wellness. This involves developing a model of care that combines physical and behavioral health and focuses on strengthening the whole health of the individual.
• Crisis Planning-This initiative supports the development of proactive crisis plans for service recipients to assist them before a crisis situation happens. The initiative also helps staff plan for crises, prepare them to provide effective reactive crisis response 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and ensure they follow up after a crisis episode.
• Clinical Care-This initiative helps move the system to a model of clinical care management focused on creating therapeutic opportunities for service recipients and away from a broker model of case coordination focused on recipient referrals.

Below is a diagram of the Clinical Initiative Framework, which shows the clinical initiatives and how they integrate with Magellan's six cross-cutting leadership principles.