Behavioral Health Consulting for Hospitals
Why Your Facility Needs Behavioral Health Programs
Whether the hospital needs enhancements to its mental health programming or wants to launch a new service line, there’s a deep need in America for psychiatric services. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), about 1 in 5 adults experience emotional challenges every year, up to 20% of the population.
While millions of people are affected by mental illness, NAMI says only 7% of mental health patients will receive adequate care throughout their journey. Yet, mental health disorders can affect anyone, regardless of age and environment, and the business of running behavioral health units can be exceptionally complicated.
Horizon Health’s behavioral health management services
Inpatient behavioral health programming specializes in evidenced-based practices in therapeutic inpatient environments that work toward diagnoses, treatment and future wellness. When mental health patients enter inpatient behavioral health facilities, they should expect the highest standards of personalized and clinical care.
When there is no behavioral health management strategy in place, it’s likely a hospital is underutilizing space and possibly increasing stress on their own emergency department. Mental health consulting services can actually protect your staff and the safety of other patients while improving patient outcomes across the board.
Behavioral management services are designed to create more efficiency within the hospital, decrease patient migration and add potential new revenue streams for your business.
What is behavioral health management for your hospital?
Behavioral health management helps build and optimize mental health services with operational, financial, clinical and marketing resources. Horizon Health has a nationwide network of over 100,000 psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, social workers, behavioral health directors, clinical coordinators and specially trained nurses to boost your bottom line and create new service lines and treatments.
For patients, having a mental illness makes it especially challenging to live the ups and downs of everyday life and maintain long-term recovery. These long-lasting behavioral issues can also ripple out to friends, communities, caregivers and the world. Psychiatric patients desperately need more expert inpatient healthcare services.
According to NAMI, people with serious mental illness are nearly twice as likely to develop severe depression, which can lead to other serious problems:
- People with depression are roughly 40% more likely to develop heart problems and metabolic diseases like diabetes.
- Among US adults with a mental illness, rates of unemployment are nearly double that of people without behavioral issues.
- Just over 21% of people experiencing homelessness in the US also have some kind of serious mental illness.
- More than one-third of American adults with a mental illness also experience substance use (or addiction) disorders, which must also be addressed.
- Caregivers of adults with emotional health issues actually spend an average of 32 hours per week providing unpaid care. (Put it this way: Caregiving an adult with a mental illness is equal to working another full-time job.)
Improving mental health outcomes with resources and staffing
Horizon Health knows that hospitals may also need executive alignment with behavioral health staffing, operations and financial analysis. The Mental Health Outcomes (MHO) team is dedicated to understanding how to measure your competition and improve patient outcomes. By analyzing business and operational data, MHO can offer partners a detailed look into improvements in patient care, potential gaps in care, hiring solutions and financial optimization.
Mental health patients in your community will be cared for by highly trained teams with specialized educational strategies and coping skills to maintain their wellness long after discharge. Horizon Health works with your hospital in strategic partnership to create or oversee your behavioral health programing – and ensure its operational excellence.
With this approach, Horizon Health can better work with hospital clients to create a dedicated team that’s trained to identify unique challenges and develop a plan of action for deeper mental health services. Together, we’ll leverage our experiences to develop and future-proof leadership for your behavioral health programming.
Behavioral health management services
Our knowledgeable teams will partner with you to ensure that patients who are admitted into an inpatient hospital will receive the full spectrum of mental health support. We’ll work with your business needs and health programs for patients with:
- Clinical depression
- Bipolar disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Borderline personality disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Teen and adolescent depression
- Substance use disorders
- Suicidal thoughts, and more
Horizon Health offers consulting services to help hospitals launch, develop or expand behavioral health programs and services. Our leadership’s experience includes healthcare professionals with clinical, operational and financial experience who are ready to fully serve your hospital’s behavioral health needs.
If your hospital doesn’t require full management support of your programs now but there are possible gaps in care, Horizon Health can still serve as a second set of eyes. With over 40 years of experience, we understand that small details – that are consistently missed – can become much bigger concerns down the road for patients, your staff and surrounding communities.
Schedule an appointment
Call 800-727-2407 or complete the online interest form to learn more about Horizon Health’s behavioral health services. We can create and implement new programming or upgrade the mental health services your hospital already offers. We can also help with clinical resources, staffing solutions, community education and regulatory compliance.
