Mental Health Services offers comprehensive mental and behavioral health treatment services through its Mental Health Response Team.

    The “Response Team” will provide a qualified mental health professional that will perform expected services as follows:

 

• Provide on-site mental health evaluations for any patient requested

• Recommend treatment solutions for high risk patients

• Initiate and expedite transfers of patients to psychiatric hospitals

• Provide appropriate resources for outpatient mental and behavioral health treatment

• Coordinate with the courts when filing emergency detention mental health warrants

 

Value Added Services 

• Provide a dedicated crisis management team

• Consult with ED physicians to avoid unnecessary referrals

• Consider multiple hospitals as transfer options

• Remain in the ED for the duration of patient transfers in most cases

• Provide continuous monitoring of patient transfers

• Collaborate with other care providers to help reduce hospital readmissions

• Emphasize and identify exceptional outpatient follow-up resources

• Decrease ED boarding times and prolonged LOS