What is MI Mind?
MI Mind is a Collaborative Quality Initiative (CQI) bringing providers, health systems, and suicide prevention experts together to reach shared goals: improving suicide prevention, care, and access to key behavioral health services in the state of Michigan. Our mission is to engage psychiatrists, psychologists, and primary care physicians in the use of care pathways to significantly reduce suicides in Michigan.
Led by Henry Ford Health in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan, MI Mind offers providers evidence-based suicide prevention practices backed by training, information, support, and evaluation with a long-term goal of furthering research, innovation, and advances in clinical care.
Introducing the “On MI Mind” live webinar series
Join MI Mind for a series of live webinars offered at no cost to physicians, behavioral health clinicians, nurses and individuals interested in the topics. You need not be a MI Mind provider or healthcare professional to attend. Please encourage colleagues and others who may be interested in the topics to join us. Learn more about upcoming webinars.
Physician Organizations join MI Mind for Cohort 2024
Three Physician Organizations joined MI Mind for the Cohort 2024, bringing the total number of providers to more than 730. The MI Mind team welcomes:
- Primary Care Partners, Inc., Saginaw, part of Covenant Healthcare Partners
- Integrated Health Partners, Battle Creek
- University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor
Regional meeting presentation opportunities
Practice Clinical Champions and Physician Organization (PO) leads are invited to present at the in-person and virtual Regional Meetings. Presentations are 10- to 15-minutes long and can describe how you have strengthened your care pathway, partnered with other resources or organizations to prevent suicide, or another topic related to MI Mind protocols, processes, or suicide prevention. Presenters receive additional points on their PO Scorecard. For more information, and to express your interest, email MI Mind at MIMind@hfhs.org.
Patient materials in multiple languages
A selection of MI Mind patient materials are now available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin, French, Hindi, and Spanish:
- If you're thinking about suicide, read this first
- Preventing suicide, tips for parents
- Understanding and helping someone who is suicidal
- Crisis Cards (Contact information for the 988 Crisis and Suicide Lifeline, Trans Life Line and Veteran’s Crisis Line)
Visit the Tools and Materials page to access these materials and print them in your office or email MI Mind at MIMind@hfhs.org to request a printed supply at no cost. Crisis Cards are business-card size, making the MI Mind printed cards handy to give to patients and their loved ones.
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MI Mind
One Ford Place, Suite 5E, Detroit, MI 48202
MIMind@hfhs.org
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Support for MI Mind is provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan as part of the BCBSM Value. Although Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and MI Mind work collaboratively, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of BCBSM or any of its employees.