Medical programs that bring trauma informed principles into behavioral health, chronic disease management, supportive home care and digital innovation
Advancing trauma informed care for over 10 years into behavioral health operations, chronic disease initiatives, supportive home care and digital innovation
Our Roots
CCNXT CareConnext grew out of our CareConnext HEART program established in 2012, created by a collaborative team of nurses who applied trauma informed principles to chronic disease management. Proven success of our first medical program continues to inspire innovation within our current medical programs.
Inspired Psychiatric Care (IPC)
A Kansas City behavioral health group established in 2020 owned and operated by CCNXT CareConnext, IPC provides in person and virtual services, including innovative modalities such as Spravato® group therapy. The practice employs psychiatric nurse practitioners and board certified physicians, offers bilingual capability, and telehealth access. IPC brings trauma informed expertise to correctional, community, and clinical partners.
Past Performance
- University of Kansas School of Medicine Crisis Counseling for Medical Students : Contracted support providing counseling and rapid referrals for students in crisis (telehealth and in-person).
Innovation: Spravato® Group Therapy
- REMS-compliant group delivery model with standardized monitoring and safety protocols.
- Structured pre-session education and post-session follow-up to reinforce continuity of care.
- Workflows integrate with partner clinics and telehealth.
- Spravato® Group Therapy REMS Operations: Delivered 80+ group sessions since inception helping 800+ patients with 100% 2-hour monitoring compliance, ZERO serious adverse events and on-time submission of required REMS Patient Monitoring Forms.
Learn More About IPC
Find out more about Inspired Psychiatric Care by visiting their website.
Psychiatric services provided through CARECONNEXT LLC, a Kansas professional limited liability company, doing business as Inspired Psychiatric Care.
Visit IPC WebsiteHEART Program
HEART (Heart failure Empowerment through Access, Resilience, and Trust) is CCNXT CareConnext’s flagship medical program for trauma informed chronic disease management. First innovated in 2012, HEART pairs shared medical appointments with structured group visits to improve understanding, self management and long term outcomes. Patients and families are empowered, reducing hospitalizations and emergency visits through continuity, trust and active participation.
Participants consistently describe feeling safe, valued and supported while navigating heart failure and other complex needs. Validated by years of published outcomes, our program is a scalable solution for many serious and complex illness.
Performance History
Awards
- Semifinalist 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Care about Your Care video contest. The contest was designed to seek innovative solutions for excessive hospital readmissions.
- Winner 2012 Overland Park Regional Medical Center’s Innovator’s Award. Overland Park Regional Medical Center is an HCA hospital.
- Winner R01 HL085397 Smith (PI) 07/01/2006–06/30/2012, a National Institutes of Health $3.2m grant
HF Clinic Appointments: Self-Management & Care of Heart Failure- Major goals: Test the magnitude of effects of group clinic appointments on the primary composite endpoint of Heart Failure re-hospitalizations or death and secondary endpoints of functional health status, quality of life and use of and costs of their health care services.
- Winner SBIR grant #1R43AG017007-01 Blanchard (PI), a $140,000 National Institutes of Health grant
Lowering the Cost of Congestive Heart Failure
Publications
- Smith CE, Piamjariyakul U, Wick JA, Spertus JA, Russell C, Dalton KM, Elyachar A, Vacek JL, Reeder KM, Nazir N, Ellerbeck EF. Multidisciplinary group clinic appointments: The Self-Management and Care of Heart Failure (SMAC-HF) Trial. Circulation: Heart Failure. 2014; 7:pp.888–894.
- McCann, J., Blanchard Hills, E., Zauszniewski, J., Smith, Carol E., Farran, Carol J., Wilkie, Dianna J., Creative Partnerships for Funding Nursing Research. Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2011 Feb: 33(1) 79-105.
- Smith, Carol E., Koehler, Julie, Moore, Janice, Blanchard, E., Ellerbeck, E., Testing Videotape Education for Heart Failure Clinical Nursing Research. Clinical Nursing Research. May 2005; vol.14,2:pp.191-205.
ValiseMD® Supportive Care
A home based, trauma informed supportive care program established during the COVID pandemic in 2019 for patients transitioning from hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health settings. ValiseMD® provides bedside and home based clinical services, coordinates with primary teams and stabilizes patients during vulnerable transitions. The program is designed to be replicable, scalable and focused on equity for underserved communities.
Notice: ValiseMD Supportive Care is not currently onboarding patients while we restructure our clinical team.
Clinical Understanding Support Platform (CUSP)
CUSP is an open-source, clinician centered platform designed to capture, structure, and communicate diagnostic reasoning across the continuum of care for serious and complex illness. It operates in parallel with existing EHR systems, leveraging FHIR compatible APIs to integrate clinical data with medical judgment. The platform supports trauma informed diagnostic workflows and promotes consistency across diverse care settings.
CUSP clinical integration
Inspired Psychiatric Care and ValiseMD® are integrating the Clinical Understanding Support Platform (CUSP) into a IOS/Android mobile patient solution. As a clinician-facing framework built on FHIR/SMART-on-FHIR, CUSP enhances continuity, handoffs and accountability across care teams.
Our IOS/Android mobile and NEXT.js browser patient app deliver 24/7/365 global care access and secured privacy while the secured clinician console (CUSP) empowers clinical reasoning, handoffs and program quality behind the scenes.
CUSP is under active deployment, aiming to support clinical decision making and care coordination for mental illness inside complex systems of care. Continued development and evaluation aim to strengthen its impact on diagnostic accuracy and conversations around serious and complex illness. Additional information, including source code of the CUSP layer and contributions is available on github.com.