Alliance’s Happy Heart Program Screens Patients for Depression

April 23, 2001

Alliance's Happy Heart Program Screens Patients for Depression

Alliance Behavioral Care (ABC) in Cincinnati, Ohio is implementing a disease management program called the “Happy Heart” program, which ABC began planning for in the winter of 2000. There is substantial evidence that patients who suffer heart attacks and have depression are at a significantly higher risk for death. Therefore, it's important to have patients screened for depression post heart attack. The Happy Heart program is designed to provide depression screening for all at-risk members. The medical case managers are paired with behavioral . . .