Larry Smith, CPRSS

Larry Smith has been with Grand Lake Mental Health Center for 24 years.  During this time, Larry has always pushed the envelope for better quality of care for the people we serve.  Larry is a disciple of the Deming Theory of Management, which has been instrumental in developing management skills within his executive team, and he has consistently used performance measures and continuous quality improvement techniques to provide more efficient, patient-centered, quality care. Larry has always concentrated on putting together interdisciplinary partnerships with organizations, focusing on leveraging shared information to improve quality of care.  GLMHC partnered with a pharmacy to not only fill medications for his clients but to also create a bi-directional data fed into GLMHC’s electronic health record (EHR), allowing staff to better monitor medication compliance.  He then duplicated this process with a high complexity laboratory, allowing staff to more quickly and efficiently order and track lab results directly from within their EHR.  Larry has also utilized his software knowledge to build an interface with one of Oklahoma’s Health Insurance Exchanges (HIE).  With Larry’s unique talents and connections to behavioral health and technology, he was able to manage all these multifaceted and usually fragmented health care providers (pharmacy, lab, HIE) by software interfaces and orchestrating a data fed to one location within his electronic health record, which he calls the Client Dashboard. Currently, Larry has closed the health care communication gap between Hospitals, Emergency rooms and police departments by helping to develop a First Responder application that allows immediate access to a LMHP, to again give our clients better care by providing services for them in the least restrictive environment needed for their care. What’s in Larry’s horizon?  He has taken the backbone/infrastructure of the First Responder application and will be rolling out a client application and clinician application that will fulfill his goal of allowing the client to receive the services they need when and where they are needed. All this has put the GLMHC model as one of the companies to watch as the Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) gains momentum.