Promise Healthcare, Inc., a leader in the long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital industry, is enhancing its current behavioral health services and expanding availability of those services to additional markets with its establishment of the Promise Behavioral Health (PBH) Division. The announcement was made today by Promise Healthcare, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter R. Baronoff.
PBH will help to ensure the delivery of high quality, cost-effective, acute inpatient and intensive outpatient behavioral health services to adults 18 years and older. Its mission is to enhance the mental health condition status of the communities it serves by providing leadership and management with a focus on comprehensive, appropriate and quality driven inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services.
The population in need of behavioral health services has been underserved and under financed for decades, and today, communities throughout the nation are feeling the effects, Baronoff noted. It is in recognition of and response to the growing demand that Promise Healthcare, Inc. — as evidenced by the establishment of its new PBH Division — has significantly increased and expanded its commitment to this type of specialized healthcare.
“Legislation and regulations promoting transformation, reform and redesign of the entire behavioral healthcare delivery system are gaining momentum nationwide,” said Baronoff. “Promise Behavioral Health will work diligently and collaboratively with all state and federal government agencies to ensure this movement serves the need of this vulnerable population.”
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a treatable condition, so too is mental illness. NAMI notes that mental illness can affect persons of any age, race, religion or income, and that mental illnesses are treatable and recovery is possible.
PBH will be led by behavioral health industry veterans Denise Dugas, as director of behavioral health, and Salina Creswell, RHIA, as assistant director of behavioral health. Their initial focus will be to assess and analyze the services, quality and delivery of care, marketing strategies, census, revenue, reimbursement and operating expenses of the behavioral health locations at Promise Hospitals in Shreveport and Gonzalez, Louisiana, and San Diego, California. They then will seek future inpatient and intensive outpatient program (IOP) opportunities within other Promise markets. This will include a dedicated IOP section at its newest LTAC hospital under construction in Vidalia, Louisiana.
“With an experienced, specialized team of professionals in place, the Promise Behavioral Health Division will meet the physical, mental, and emotional needs of each community its program serves,” Dugas said. “Our mandate is to create a positive environment of friendly, kind, compassionate, quality care that will promote comfort, healing, and recovery.”
Promise Healthcare, Inc. (www.promisehealthcare.com) is one of the largest long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital companies in the country. It owns and operates 14 LTAC hospitals in six states, with additional locations under construction or development. Locations owned and managed by Promise in Louisiana include Shreveport, Bossier City, Baton Rouge (two campuses), Gonzalez, and Ferriday, with the latter location to relocate to a new, freestanding facility currently under construction in Vidalia. Additional Promise locations include Vicksburg, Mississippi; San Antonio and Nederland, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Los Angeles and San Diego, California.
Promise Healthcare, Inc. is headquartered at 999 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431. For more information on Promise Behavioral Health, contact Denise Dugas, PBH director of behavioral health at Promise Healthcare at 561-869-3100 or via [email protected].
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