Behavioral Health Management

Community Mental Health Management

BHM Services is a leader in the management of behavioral health programs.  The same level of care and service that has gone into the other behavioral programs we manage can be applied to your county's community mental health program.  Some of the developments your county can expect from BHM are:

  • Local management integrated with and accountable to your county's designated program management personnel.
  • Immediate 24 hour and seven days per week responsiveness from the BHM Program Manager and corporate staff.
  • Creative, high quality, cost-effective treatment services for the county's Department of Mental Health consumers.
  • A team of dedicated professional and cooperative staff.
  • Active involvement of BHM in county community activities.
  • Comprehensive programs of quality assurance, including staff development and performance, clinical appropriateness of treatment, consumer education, risk management, and client satisfaction.
  • A healthy partnership and open communication with BHM corporate and local management.

Additionally, we understand that the responsibility for managing the county's community mental health program would not end with just the provision of staff.  It also requires significant participation with the County in the design, development and implementation of clinical service delivery systems, as well as monitoring systems to ensure the quality of the service.  In this capacity, we recognize our responsibility to deliver a wide variety of services including:

  • Staffing of mental health and physical health positions;
  • Assessment, evaluation, and triage of clients;
  • Individual, group, and family counseling;
  • Psychological testing and evaluation;
  • Program management;
  • Medication management and administration;
  • Nursing services

Throughout our history we have provided the organizational resources, management systems, and staff for all kinds of clients to offer high quality mental health services to clients and constituents.  We have adapted our resources to meet changing needs.  While our focus has evolved from purely inpatient services through a broad range of provider settings, we have consistently built and sustained strong corporate support and commitment to providing high quality services.  This support includes all of the core functions necessary to fulfill any contract.

Correctional Mental Health Management

BHM Corrections is a national specialist in providing on-site mental health services to correctional systems, including state and local prison, jails and juvenile detention centers. We serve over numerous correctional facilities, covering thousands of inmates. Throughout our network of contracts, we treat individuals who are entering the criminal justice system and have immediate mental health needs, as well as inmates who are in the general corrections population and need emergency treatment, outpatient services, crisis stabilization, or acute patient care. We have proven our capacity to innovate, to focus services on inmate/patient needs, and to improve the quality and responsiveness of special acute and crisis stabilization units within the criminal justice and corrections settings.

 

From program design to quality assurance, BHM shoulders the burden of all your mental health care objectives-freeing you to focus on other tasks.  Our core services include:

  • On-site staffing and nationwide recruitment
  • Custom program design and management
  • Medication management
  • Consultation
  • Utilization review and management

BHM will tailor any of these services to address the mental health care needs of your system.  If specific treatment mandates exist, we'll develop protocols to make sure you meet the requirements.  

 

Medication Management: Controlling the Cost of Care

One of the best ways BHM can help your system is by controlling the cost of care through medication management.  In the past few years, the overall costs of mental health care have soared-due primarily to the emergence of new, expensive psychotropic medications.  Clinicians tend to favor these newer drugs over conventional, less expensive ones, even though conventional medications will often achieve the equivalent outcome.  

 

 

 

Residential Group Home Management

 

BHM Residential manages group homes providing 24-hour services in licensed, non-secure facilities.  BHM provides a community-based therapeutic group home designed for residents with significant deficits in independent living skills. BHM offers a less restrictive treatment environment than a secure residential treatment center but more restrictive than day treatment or outpatient services. Our comprehensive services focus on rehabilitation and include multidisciplinary and multimodal therapies to fit the needs of the resident.

 

Medical and nursing services are generally available on a consultative basis. Typically, coordinated treatment services include individual, group, and family counseling, rehabilitation, vocational training, and skill building. Residents may go into the community for work, school, and/or outside activities. Community resources are used in a planned, purposeful, and therapeutic manner that encourages residents' autonomy.  

 

 

Children & family Service Program Management

 

BHMC&F Services works with counties to offers comprehensive behavioral healthcare services for children, adolescents, and their families. Across a continuum of treatment intensity, our programs serve children with diverse needs, from mild adjustment difficulties to the most extreme forms of emotional disturbances.  Our treatment approach is highly individualized to meet the unique needs of each child.  We can assemble a diverse group of mental health, mental retardation, and addictions professional who have various educational backgrounds.

 

BHMC&F is able to design and manage the following programs:

·         Counseling Services.  A full-range of mental health and addiction counseling services for children/adolescents.  Each child receives a comprehensive bio-psychosocial evaluation prior to treatment, which determines the scope of treatment to be recommended.

·         Mental Health Case Management.  Individualized supportive services including outreach, support network building, and assistance in accessing community resources/entitlements for ages birth through 17 years of age.  Services are provided in homes, schools, hospitals, or other community settings.  The primary objective of the service is to work cooperatively with children and their families to assist them in maximizing their potential for successful community living as an integrated family unit.

·         Mental Retardation Case Management.  Mental retardation case management services for individuals 3 years of age and older.  The role of the case management is to locate, coordinate, and monitor services for individuals with mental retardation.  The goal is to provide services in the least restrictive manner according to the needs of the individual.

·         Early Intervention.  Early intervention services for children birth to 3 years of age.  Early intervention includes services and supports designed to help families with children with special needs.  Early intervention builds upon the natural learning occurring in those first few years.

·         Day Program (Partial Hospital). Programs designed to assist adolescents from ages 14 to 21 years of age experiencing social and emotional difficulties who are currently unable to function in school or the community.  These programs seek to prevent the adolescent from hospitalization or re-hospitalization by improving functioning and facilitating a return to school.