L. Read Sulik, Md, Faap, Dfaacap Email & Phone Number

At Portages Health, we are Mental Health and Wellbeing Visionaries, Adventurers, Explorers, Trailblazers, Outfitters, and Guides who care passionately.Praestan Health is a behavioral health technology company and Portages Health is a digital behavioral healthcare company made up of a group of highly passionate and talented individuals dedicated to.

• As the Chief Integration Officer, I led efforts to advance healthcare by partnering with key healthcare stakeholders including independent primary care and specialty clinics, forward-thinking health plans, and.
• The Integrated Health and Wellness Clinics brought teams of behavioral health specialists into the primary care clinics, specialty clinics and employee onsite clinics to work in partnership with the medical team to.
• As Executive Director of the PrairieCare Institute, I oversaw the design, development and administration of the education, training, research, community resources, innovations, and change management services.
• Provided outpatient collaborative clinical care for children, adolescents and adults.

• Provide clinical consultation to primary care physicians and other health care and mental health care professionals; providing clinical supervision, consultation, lectures and training to health systems, schools.
• Consult widely to hospitals, health plans, health systems, care facilities, professional associations, and state government agencies on care delivery models, strategic planning for care delivery transformation and.
• Clients have included Wolfson Children's Hospital and Nemours Clinic, Kaiser Permanente Colorado Medical Group, Oregon Pediatric Society, University of Kentucky Department of Pediatrics, Illinois Council of Child and.
• Provide lectures, education and training to primary care physicians, nurses, mental health professionals and education professionals on children’s mental health and on models of collaboration between primary care.
• Popular speaker frequently invited to provide Key Notes, Lectures, and Workshops nationally and internationally

• Oversaw and directed the development of enterprise-wide behavioral health services; designed, developed, and implemented plan to fully integrate primary and behavioral health services across the entire Sanford Health.
• Led the Behavioral Health clinical, quality, and financial operations for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, Adult Psychiatry and Adult Psychology Departments in the north region of the Sanford Health system..
• Received $12.1 million CMS Health Care Innovation Award in 2012 to achieve the Triple Aim by transforming primary care through fully integrated primary AND behavioral health care patient-centered medical homes to be.
• Development of training programs for clinic workforce to acquire new foundational skills in Chronic Disease Management, Health Promotion, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Informed Care, Cultural Mindfulness, Patient.
• Led the design and implementation of technological advances allowing patients to engage EHR portal to improve their own level of activation in their own care
• Directed year long advanced leadership development course for executives and physician leaders.

• Appointed under Governor Pawlenty’s administration to serve as the Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Human Services over the Chemical and Mental Health Services Administration.
• Oversaw policy development and regulation of the Adult Mental Health, Child Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Policy Divisions
• Oversaw the State Operated Services which included psychiatric hospitals, substance abuse treatment programs, group residential and community treatment programs serving people with mental illness, developmental.
• Responsible for strategic planning and development, promotion and implementation of programs, organizational evaluation, establishing and achieving quality benchmarks, and providing leadership to the entire CMHS.
• Supervised a 10 member Executive Team including the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the State’s public health mental health care system as well as the Administration-wide.
• Served as the public spokesperson for the Administration responsible for engagement of numerous stakeholders including the legislature, consumers and families, advocates, health plans, and labor bargaining units and.

• Oversaw the development and operations of inpatient, partial-hospitalization, outpatient speciality behavioral health, integrated primary care and outreach psychiatric programs and services for children and adolescents.
• Opened a new inpatient adolescent mental health unit in 1999, adolescent partial hospitalization in 2000 and child and adolescent partial hospitalization in 2004.
• Expanded and developed programs through successful recruitment of eight full time child psychiatrists and nurse practitioners.
• Created and developed the widely recognized and award winning Clara’s House, one of the nation’s first intensive freestanding partial hospitalization facilities funded soley through philanthropy for children and.
• Worked with the CentraCare Health Foundation to raise over $4,000,000 for children’s mental health services.
• Coauthored grant application with St. Cloud Schools leading to successful reciept of $8,000,000 Safe Schools Health Students grant to improve school safety and largely improve access to children’s mental health services.

Triple Board Residency In Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry And Child And Adolescent Psychiatry

Doctor Of Medicine

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Child Development (Institute Of Child Development)

Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities