Thrive Behavioral Sciences provides psychiatric and/or psychological evaluations for patients and residents whom may benefit from; medication management, talk therapy, diagnosis confirmation and treatment recommendations.
Our specialized behavioral health providers deliver consistent services to improve and stabilize mental health needs. We work proactively and collaboratively with your interdisciplinary team to devise an optimal treatment plan.
Psychotropic medication management
Talk therapy/counseling by psychologist or Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Psych-specialist practitioners
Proven GDR treatment protocols
Integrated Care approach to resolve behavioral issues
Attendance at behavior management meeting
Clear, consistent and timely documentation
Reliable, consistent staff schedules
Thrive Behavioral Sciences provides psychiatric and/or psychological evaluations for patients and residents whom may benefit from; medication management, talk therapy, diagnosis confirmation and treatment recommendations.
Our specialized behavioral health providers deliver consistent services to improve and stabilize mental health needs. We work proactively and collaboratively with your interdisciplinary team to devise an optimal treatment plan.
Psychotropic medication management
Talk therapy/counseling by psychologist or Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Psych-specialist practitioners
Proven GDR treatment protocols
Integrated Care approach to resolve behavioral issues
Attendance at behavior management meeting
Clear, consistent and timely documentation
Reliable, consistent staff schedules
Our goal is to reduce and prevent unplanned readmissions to the hospital by providing evidence-based behavioral health interventions and treatments.
Due to the evolving guidelines by CMS, many skilled nursing/rehabilitation facilities are challenged with minimal provider support with the management and implementation of Gradual Dose Reduction (GDR) programs. Our team of specialists will help you achieve your quality goals and maximize your CMS star ratings.
Behavioral Health Federal Regulations – F-tags
Providing behavioral health care and services is an integral part of the person-centered environment. This involves an interdisciplinary approach to care, with qualified staff that demonstrate the competencies and skills necessary to provide appropriate services to the resident. Individualized approaches to care (including direct care and activities) are provided as part of a supportive physical, mental, and psychosocial environment, and are directed toward understanding, preventing, relieving, and/or accommodating a resident’s distress or loss of abilities. Each resident must receive and the skilled nursing facility must provide the necessary behavioral health care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being, in accordance with the comprehensive assessment and plan of care. Behavioral health encompasses a resident’s whole emotional and mental well-being, which includes, but is not limited to, the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders (§483.40).
Regulations for skilled nursing are changing again in 2019. This implementation is the last of a 3-phase execution of new regulations which began in November 2017. This year, November 2019, will introduce survey review and compliance training requirements for various focused subjects. In late 2017, Federal officials put eight areas of fines on hold. Targeted areas include smoking policies, antibiotic stewardships and behavioral health services. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) instituted the moratorium for enforcement penalties under Phase 2 of the Final Rules of participation in 2017 to give SNFs more time to educate employees. F-Tags specifically associated with behavioral health included; access to care for behavioral health services (F741) and psychotropic medications related to PRN limitations (F758).
Assessment of mental health history upon Admission in the development of a comprehensive person-centered care planning.
The intent of this regulation is to have the physician take an active role in supervising the care of the residents. Total program of care includes all care the facility provides residents to maintain or improve their highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being, as defined by the comprehensive assessment and plan of care.
Each resident must receive, and the facility must provide the necessary behavioral health care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being, in accordance with the comprehensive assessment and plan of care. Behavioral health encompasses a resident’s whole emotional and mental well-being, which includes, but is not limited to, the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders.
Facility Staff education and instruction to help manage, prevent or reduce behavioral health issues.
Residents who were admitted to the nursing home with a mental or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who have a history of trauma and/or PTSD, must receive appropriate person-centered and individualized treatment and services to meet their assessed needs.
Ensure that a resident who, upon admission was not assessed or diagnosed with a mental or psychosocial adjustment difficulty or a documented history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), does not develop patterns of decreased social interaction and/or increased withdrawn, angry, or depressive behaviors while residing in the facility.
A resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia, receives the appropriate treatment and services to attain or maintain his or her highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
The facility must provide medically-related social services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being of each resident.
Each resident’s entire drug/medication regimen is managed and monitored to promote or maintain the resident’s highest practicable mental, physical, and psychosocial well-being.
- The facility implements gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication
- PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
Thrive contracts with most private insurance companies along with Medicare and Medicaid.
Referring to Thrive Behavioral Sciences is effortless. A member of your interdisciplinary team determines that a patient may benefit from a memory care evaluation, Dementia or Alzheimer’s care, medication management, or other behavioral health services, they facilitate an order and our specialized provider will round on-site to provide those services.