Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Cheshire Medical Center serve as co-administrators of the Region 1 Integrated Delivery Network, a collaborative effort of health care, behavioral health, and community-based organizations to improve care for Medicaid beneficiaries who have substance use and mental health disorders. 

The Region 1 Integrated Delivery Network is working with regional primary care teams in the Lebanon, NH-Cheshire NH regions to implement a screening tool (the Comprehensive Core Standardized Assessment), used at most primary care visits, to identify patients who may be at risk of poor health due to behavioral health needs or due to lack of basic life necessities.  By making this screening simple and routine, providers can offer appropriate behavioral health supports to patients when needed.

The Region 1 Integrated Delivery Network began working in 2018 with regional primary care providers and emergency departments in western NH to implement these screenings, with a goal of being available across western NH by the end of 2019.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Cheshire Medical Center serve as the co-administrators of the NH Region 1 Integrated Delivery Network.  Click here for a list of other health care, behavioral health, and community partners working together as part of this network.

NH's Integrated Delivery Networks receive funding from NH Department of Health and Human Services, which receives funding from the federal Medicaid 1115 Waiver program in order to support this behavioral health improvement process.