Interim Behavioral Health Management for Hospital Psychiatric Programs

We provide interim management for behavioral health inpatient psychiatric units and hospitals. Our clients include large Safety Net hospitals, rural hospitals, academic medical centers, and community mental health and substance abuse treatment agencies.

Our Interim managers are highly qualified and experienced former psychiatric hospital system owners, CEOs, and  senior managers. We use a collaborative and positive leadership approach. 

Experienced Professional Behavioral Health Interim Management

We provide interim management for behavioral health inpatient, residential treatment, outpatient programs as well as psychiatric service lines. Our clients include large Safety Net hospitals, rural hospitals, academic medical centers, and community mental health and substance abuse treatment agencies.

Our Interim managers are qualified experienced former psychiatric hospital system owners, CEOs, and  senior managers. We use a collaborative and positive leadership approach. 

Behavioral Health Interim Management Approach

As Interim Managers, we work to sustain and improve operating services, consistent regulatory compliance, quality of care, clinical and business functions, and introduce field best practices. We work closely with staff.

We use a structured sequence of positive hands on management based on daily interaction with the hospital, organization, psychiatrists, medical staff, practitioners, administrators, quality, safety, and compliance managers, nurses, therapists, billing and other departments

Experience supports a reasoned process of deepening our understanding of the key issues and impediments, then working as collaboratively as possible to define and monitor actionable operations management and improvements that staff can embrace

Teaching and modeling are important tools along with quantified metrics that shift problem solving from perception and guessing to innovation and solution

We use tools / metrics we have developed to improve quality and performance of the operations

Positive momentum and change occurs through team effort guided by hard data, responsive, inquisitive, and transparent leadership

We provide frequent, structured written communications and status reports to the health care system’s leadership

Recent Interim Behavioral Health Management Projects

  • Interim Behavioral Health Director of a 24 hospital healthcare system in Virginia and North Caroline
  • Interim Behavioral Health Director of a major safety net hospital facing CMS sanctions related to their behavioral health service line, leading a successful eight-month, hands-on compliance improvement project
  • Interim Behavioral Health Directors for a major health system operating 29 hospitals including 6 psychiatric facilities, an 80-bed residential drug treatment facility, a mobile assessment team, and a comprehensive outpatient behavioral health system
  • Interim management at the CEO level for a $61 million children’s behavioral health care system unable to make bond payments
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Interim Behavioral Health Management

We work with hospital leadership daily and on-site to successfully operate and improve the psychiatric service line. Our interim management services may include implementing a turnaround plan that was developed as the result of compliance issues of an operations assessment and management action plan. In addition, we offer various deliverables that can range from problem-specific correction to full-service interim management.