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Causes: Mental Health, Psychiatric Hospitals
Mission: Pine rest christian mental health services is called to express the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing behavioral health services with professional excellence, christian integrity, and compassion.
Programs: Hospital based services inpatient and partial hospitalization programs include dedicated psychiatric services for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. Clinical conditions addressed included the full array of psychiatric diagnoses, co-occurring substance abuse diagnoses, and psychiatric disorders where treatment is complicated by co-existing medical conditions. Patients experience professional assessment and individualized treatment including: diagnosis, medication management and education, individual and group therapies, individual and family consultations and therapy, case management, discharge planning and aftercare. The inpatient and partial hospitalization programs are accredited by the joint commission of accreditation of healthcare organizations (jcaho). The pine rest's board of directors entered into a joint operation agreement ("agreement") effective july 1, 1998 with saint mary's health services to manage the financial and clinical aspects of inpatient and partial hospitalization behavioral health services in the greater west michigan area. The agreement combines the inpatient and partial hospitalization mental health services of both organizations under common management and operations. The parties to the agreement also entered into a series of contractual agreements to provide specific clinical, financial or support services. The joint operating agreement of which pine rest is managing/operating has 200 beds available. Hospital based services, had 69,470 patient days of care in fiscal year 2017.
clinic network through its eighteen clinics, offers outpatient, ambulatory care at locations throughout west and northern michigan, and in pella and des moines, iowa. For people who do not require the structured environment of the inpatient or residential care settings, outpatient services are at the center of the behavioral health continuum. Nearly 75% of all persons who come to pine rest are served through outpatient care. Clinicians provide a broad spectrum of intervention across the age continuum in convenient, non-restrictive environments. In addition to traditional outpatient care, pine rest provides a variety of specialty services including assessment through the psychological consultation center, intensive outpatient and residential substance abuse/addictions services, court-related services and assessments, and more. The clinic network had 276,975 patient visits in fiscal year 2017.
hospital based services provides assistance to other health systems with behavioral health services. Regionally, this process creates a hospital network and referral process focused on appropriate care in the proper location. Essentially, pine rest is reimbursed, at a break-even level, as a means to assure long-term availability of program and operations oversight, psychiatrists and consultation at the local level.