Integrated Health Home (IHH)

• Comprehensive care management
• Care coordination
• Health promotion
• Comprehensive transitional care/follow-up
• Patient & family support
• Referral to community & social support services

• Providers can practice more proactive, coordinated care, because of a new reimbursement structure.
• More opportunities to track, coach and engage with patients
• Improved communication and coordination for better patient outcomes
• Improved utilization of health information technology

• Better coordination and management of their often complicated and complex care
• Help navigating multiple systems
• More engagement in their own care
• Access to a wider range of services

Health Home Standards must be met to be able to participate in the Health Home Program. Minimum requirements listed below:

Must be one of the following:

1. Community Mental Health Center
2. Mental Health Service Provider
3. Iowa licensed residential group care setting
4. Iowa licensed Psychiatric Medical Institution for Children (PMIC) facility
5. Nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA), the Joint Commission, or the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) under the accreditation standards that apply to mental health rehabilitative services.

Provider must be able to provide community-based mental health services to the target population.

Providers must meet requirements throughout the state plan amendment.

The IHH must have either a Peer Support Specialist or Family Support Specialist.  A Peer Support Specialist is a consumer who is in recovery from a mental illness who has completed 20 hours of training approved by the lead entity and passed a competency exam based on that Peer Support training. 

Use some form of a Patient Registry

Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Agree to participate in the Iowa Health Information Network

Dedicated care coordinators

Expanded hours for access

Counties you will be serving

Population(s) you will be serving:

1. Pediatric only

2. Adult only

3. Pediatric and Adult

Anticipated go-live date

Email the documents listed below to healthhomes@hhs.iowa.gov 

Once the documents are processed, a call will be scheduled with your team to assist with program onboarding and roll out. 

1. Read, understand and sign the Health Home Provider Agreement. This agreement outlines the expectations of the Health Home.

2. Complete the Health Home Provider Application.

3. Provide your agency's accreditation or licensure documentation.