Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals

Would you like to improve your system of delivery o f mental health services and improve your organizations probability that your treatment programming meets JCAHO standards?  I can help in the following areas.

Needs Assessment Development

· Develop a needs assessment unique to your population.

· From the needs assessment design treatment programming in a systemic manner consistent with your resources and commensurate with staff skill level.

· Include manual based therapies given patient needs for consistency and repeatability. 

Milieu

Research suggests that the milieu of a treatment environment strongly influences the efficacies of patient care [1],[2],[3].

· Patient perception of care is an initial and integral means by which of improving the milieu of your organization.  I can design patient satisfaction policy and procedures specific to your organization that are consistent with JCAHO’s Principals of Patient Satisfaction Measures. 

· I can collect and analyze the initial set of data.  Patient satisfaction results will be provided to you in report form with clear, reasonable, and obtainable recommendations to enhance the cultural climate of your hospital.

· Staff training on implementation, analysis and report generation of ongoing patient satisfaction surveys  can be provided.  This includes computer software programming specific to your organization

· Cultural competency training available for all staff.  Trainer of trainers can also be provided.

Policy & Documentation

If it isn’t documented then it didn’t happen.

· Patient Organizational policies consistent with your policy and procedures format.

· Group and individual therapeutic documentation.  Guaranteed to be comprehensive in manner that each patients  psychosocial programming offered by all treating clinicians can be viewed at a glance by a surveyor, treatment team member or administrator. 

· Individualize treatment planning that is consistent with services offered.

 

Psychological Services

Organizational Consulting