PARTNERSHIPS
Extending psychiatric care to the patients who need it most, in partnership with community health centers.
Fady Boules, PMHNP-BC. Vice President of Business Development, Inland Psychiatric Medical Group.
THE PREMISE
Federally qualified health centers serve California's most underserved populations — and they are drowning in psychiatric demand. Wait times stretch to months. Primary care physicians are forced to manage complex behavioral health alone. Tele-psych vendors come and go, mostly go. What FQHCs actually need is what FQHCs can rarely find: a serious psychiatric partner who shows up locally, integrates into the team, and stays.
WHO WE ARE
Inland Psychiatric Medical Group, at scale.
Founded in 1992. Serving the Inland Empire and Southern California for over thirty years.
100+
psychiatric providers
30
clinics across the Inland Empire
5–95
age range, full lifespan
100+
new patients absorbable per day
In-person care across the Inland Empire. Telepsychiatry from anywhere in California. Already credentialed and in-network with IEHP and Medi-Cal.
THE MODEL
An embedded psychiatric provider, credentialed at your center, billing under your PPS.
An IPMG psychiatric nurse practitioner — or several, depending on your volume — comes onsite to your FQHC on scheduled days. We are credentialed at your center, privileged in your EMR, integrated with your care team, and billed under your federally qualified health center umbrella at PPS rates. Your patients see a clinician who knows your workflow. Your PCPs see notes from someone they can text.
This is not the telehealth-vendor model. This is the staffing model FQHCs actually want — and the one most psychiatric providers cannot deliver. We can. We have a contract structure ready. We are experienced with FQHC credentialing, FQHC EMRs, and the operational reality of integrated behavioral health under HRSA compliance.
Some partnerships begin with referral overflow and mature into embedded coverage over time. We meet you where you are.
WHAT MAKES THIS WORK
Five things FQHC behavioral health directors care about.
Local, not vendor-parachute
We are based in Redlands, with 30 clinics across the Inland Empire. We are not a national tele-psych company entering your market for a quarter and leaving when the contract is hard. We are your neighbors.
Lifespan coverage
5 through 95. Pediatric, adolescent, adult, geriatric. Your FQHC's full population — not the slice most psych vendors carve out.
Already in-network
Credentialed with IEHP, Medi-Cal, Medicare, and most major commercial plans. No payer-credentialing delay before your first patient is seen.
Embedded, not just remote
We deploy NPs to your site. Where most vendors offer telehealth only, we offer both — onsite presence for the patients who need it, virtual reach for the patients who don't.
EMR-integrated, contract-ready
Experienced with FQHC EMRs and credentialing workflows. We have a contract template ready to adapt to your governance — not a six-month implementation runway.
A NOTE FROM FADY
I was a primary care nurse practitioner before I became a PMHNP.
I spent years as an FNP before training as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. I know what it feels like to be handed a patient with bipolar disorder and chronic pain and ADHD and fifteen minutes on the schedule. I know the look a primary care provider gives the psychiatric prescription pad when they wish they had any other option. The behavioral health access gap is not abstract to me. I sat on the other side of it.
When I bring IPMG to an FQHC partnership, I bring that memory. I know what your PCPs need from me, because I needed it from someone for years. I know what good notes look like, what same-day curbside consults look like, what it feels like when the psychiatric specialist actually shows up. I want to be that specialist for your team.
— Fady Boules, PMHNP-BC
CURRENTLY PARTNERING WITH
Golden Valley Health Centers
A federally qualified health center serving nearly 150,000 patients across Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties — 45+ clinics, founded in 1972, one of the largest FQHCs in California. We are proud to extend IPMG's psychiatric care to the communities GVHC serves.
HOW A PARTNERSHIP STARTS
Three steps to a working partnership.
1
You send a paragraph to fady.boules@inlandpsych.com. Tell us about your center, your patient population, and the specific behavioral health gap you're trying to close. I read every inquiry myself.
2
Discovery conversation
We talk — 30 to 45 minutes — about your operational reality. Volume, payer mix, EMR, existing BH team, what's worked and what hasn't. No sales pitch. We figure out whether we're the right fit before either of us spends real time.
3
Pilot or full embed
If the fit is right, we move to a structured pilot or directly to embedded coverage, depending on your readiness. Contract template ready. Credentialing typically takes 60–90 days; we can sometimes shorten that.
ALSO EXPLORING
Federally qualified health centers are the primary focus, but I am also in conversation with independent practice associations, managed care plans, and integrated delivery networks across California. If your organization is rethinking psychiatric access for an underserved population, the conversation is welcome.
BEGIN THE CONVERSATION
Tell me about your center.
I read every partnership inquiry personally. Send a paragraph about your center, your patient population, and the behavioral health gap you're trying to close. I'll be in touch within two business days.
fady.boules@inlandpsych.com
— Fady Boules, PMHNP-BC
Vice President of Business Development & Lead PMHNP
Inland Psychiatric Medical Group