The CCBHC Acute Care/ED Liaison ensures continuity of care for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) clients between the Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center CCBHC and acute care or emergency rooms in designated CCBHC service area. This role focuses on ensuring safe and healthy transitions of care between local hospital emergency departments, acute psychiatric emergency departments, psychiatric triages, and crisis receiving and stabilization facilities and the CCBHC. The Liaison role develops and maintains strong collaborations with those healthcare providers previously mentioned. The Liaison ensures that the CCBHC client is connected to their primary team with the minimal time needed to do so between discharge and treatment follow-up, consistent with CCBHC standards. The Liaison maintains close collaboration with the CCBHC outpatient treatment teams and continues to actively work with the CCBHC client in the community until the primary CCBHC treatment team can fully engage the client. The Liaison additionally has the important role of tracking and reporting their work with CCBHC clients consistent with CCBHC quality metrics. The Liaison also works closely with both Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center Mental Health Recovery Center and CCBHC outpatient treatment teams to file, track, report, and assist in maintenance of all forms of mental health commitments.
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Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center's primary mission is to serve individuals with serious mental illness and chronic addiction as well as seriously emotionally disturbed children and their families. Patients of all ages are welcomed, from children to seniors, with a philosophy of care that stresses strength-based and family- and community-centered treatment utilizing the Recovery Model of treatment.