Willowbrooke at Floyd Offers Expanded Behavioral Health Services Year in Review
Approval of Willowbrooke at Floyd as a state- designated emergency receiving, evaluation and treatment facility allows the behavioral health facility to accept and care for patients who have a mental illness or addictive disorder and are involuntarily admitted for emergency care of a current psychiatric issue. These patients meet clinical criteria for admission but are unable or unwilling to provide informed consent for services. Emergency Receiving Facilities are specially equipped and staffed to care for mental health patients in need of emergency intervention to protect themselves or others. Floyd mental health screeners see almost 1,000 patients each year who previously were referred elsewhere for involuntary care. Now, these patients are able to get care locally, when appropriate. Floyd and Tanner Health System are part of a hospital strategic alliance formed in 2013 with Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton and West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange.
For the past 25 years, Floyd has provided behavioral health services in a free-standing facility.
In 2017, Floyd’s 53-bed behavioral health center celebrated a new name, Willowbrooke at Floyd, and an expanded list of services, the result of a new management agreement with Tanner Health System dating to May 2016 and the hospital’s new direction. Under the management agreement, Willowbrooke at Floyd receives infrastructure support, physician and staff recruitment, and access to Willowbrooke at Tanner's extensive line of behavioral health services for patients. Over the past year, Willowbrooke at Floyd has secured a series of certifications and designations that allow the hospital to expand the services it provides to the community: The Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Program (DATEP) license enables Willowbrooke at Floyd to treat patients with primary substance abuse diagnoses with no co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses. Intensive Counseling Available The addition of a Partial Hospitalization Program allows Willowbrooke at Floyd to provide intensive counseling to adults with mental health or substance abuse issues. The program uses individual, group and family counseling to help those who are transitioning from inpatient care to the community, and it serves as a bridge for those who are in an outpatient program but need more intensive counseling to keep them from regressing.
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