Behavioral Health
Inpatient Behavioral Health Services
Our Inpatient program is designed to stabilize the patient experiencing a crisis in an acute care, holistic treatment setting. The program serves adults who require a safe setting. Our multidisciplinary treatment team provides 24 hour nursing care, social services and activity therapy. Patients are seen daily by either a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
We recognize that emotional, behavioral and substance use problems can affect all areas of a person’s life. Our individualized treatment program is tailored to address each person’s unique problems and needs.
Treatment services are focused on helping patients develop the necessary coping skills to deal with the issues that led to the need for hospitalization and to evaluate and manage each patient’s medication. We encourage empowerment of our patients to take the first steps in addressing their acute psychiatric problems. The primary objective for the inpatient program is to guide our patients in reaching a point of stabilization working alongside the treatment team to lessen psychiatric symptoms. Throughout the inpatient treatment experience, we work together with our patients and their families to encourage the best possible outcome and ongoing plan for success.
Outpatient Behavioral Health Services
Outpatient services begin with an assessment to gather information and describe treatment options. Typically, most people participate in individual therapy/counseling in order to reduce the negative effects of stressors and to build strengths and resilience. Sometimes families join in a person’s individual therapy or the whole family participates in family therapy. At different
Therapy services are provided by people with master’s degrees in counseling, social work or marriage
Most major insurances are accepted including Medicaid, Medicare. There are various programs available to people without insurance, including a sliding fee scale for Indiana residents.
Psychiatric & Medication Management
Once an assessment has been completed and the person is being seen for treatment, he/she may be referred to a psychiatric prescriber (a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse practitioner) for an evaluation to determine if medication may be helpful. The patient will have regular appointments with the prescriber to monitor and adjust the medication as needed.
For all medication questions and refill requests, call the MEDLINE at 812-532-3428. Please leave a message and one of our nursing staff will call you back.
Most major insurances are accepted including Medicaid, Medicare. There are various programs available to people without insurance, including a sliding fee scale for Indiana residents.
Telehealth
To increase the availability of psychiatric services, telehealth services are used in some of our locations. This means that the prescriber (a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse practitioner) is on a video screen and interacts with the patient using telecommunications technology, similar to Skype. Nursing staff assist the patient in the process, obtain vital signs, and help with scheduling appointments. Telehealth services also may be available for therapy appointments. Telehealth services are paid by insurance companies the same way as in-person appointments.