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The Nurse Practitioner Psychiatric (NP) for the Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) program. The PC-MHI program provides behavioral health consultation, assessment, intervention, and triaging within the Primary Care clinics and serves as a primary point of access for patients in need of behavioral healthcare. Patients access PC-MHI services through "warm hand-offs" from Primary Care providers as well as by walking into Primary Care during business hours. Critical functions of the PC-MHI program are to provide patients with easily accessible, same-day behavioral health evaluation and intervention, and to facilitate patients in accessing appropriate longer-term behavioral healthcare within the James H. Quillen VA Medical center (JHQVAMC) as needed. Whenever appropriate, patients