A Los Angeles children's hospital is meeting demand for pediatric mental health care with a workforce most families do not think of first: more than 100 medical and psychiatric social workers providing coverage around the clock. She points to rising demand driven by cost-of-living pressure, caregiver burnout, health care insecurity and communication challenges between families and providers, and argues that medical social workers have long been doing behavioral health work without being counted as behavioral health practitioners. Integrated Behavioral Health Means Care Comes to the PatientThe term appears constantly in health system communications and is rarely explained. Integrated behavioral health places behavioral health clinicians inside the medical setting where the child is already being seen. More than 100 medical and psychiatric social workers providing 24-hour coverage across virtually all inpatient and outpatient settings at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.