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Volume 21 International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2019
March 07-08, 2019
March 07-08, 2019 | Barcelona, Spain
5th International Conference on
Mental Health and Human Resilience
A novel approach to behavioral health care services in a hospital setting
Luis Allen, Jessica Koontz and LaDonna Sampson
Advent Health, USA
The growing need for Behavior Health Care Services along with the shortage of providers makes for a significant
challenge. The continued rise of healthcare costs has left us with the challenge of how we can deliver behavioral
health care services in the medical setting while decreasing the cost, improving efficiency, having a more patient
centered approach, and elevating the standard of care. This pilot consists of a joint effort of a multi-disciplinary
team: nurses, hospitalist, psychiatrist and social worker. The target population was patients admitted to the Florida
Hospital Orlando System under an involuntary commitment, had significant medical conditions that warrants
admission to the medical floors, i.e. uncontrolled diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension and chest pains. While these
patients were receiving active medical treatment waiting to be stabilized, a multidiscipline psychiatric team provided
active treatment for these patients via telemedicine the outcome was 78% of the patients admitted to this new pilot
model did not require acute psychiatric hospitalization and they were able to be discharge back into the community
with outpatient follow. Both the medical and psychiatric treatments were able to be provided in parallel manner. This
Virtual Inpatient Psychiatric unit is an example of future models of care that with the incorporation of telemedicine
will improve our response time, increase the access and a more patient centered approach to care.
Biography
L G Allen has been associated with Florida Hospital’s Center for Behavioral Health since 1997 serving as its Medical Director since 1998. He currently holds
the positions of Section Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry for Florida Hospital, Orlando Division, Medical Director of the Psychiatric Medical Unit, and
Medical Director of Florida Hospital’s Outlook Clinic, a community based mental health initiative, as well as being coordinator of the Consultation Liaison for
Psychiatric Services Department.
Luis Allen, Jessica Koontz et al., Int J Emerg Ment Health 2019, Volume 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-026