Specifications include, but are not limited to: a. Offer a full range of short-term (less than 24 hours) and intermediate (up to 14 days) crisis services and interventions twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days per week. b. Provide clinically informed screenings, assessments, evidence-based treatments, and transitional housing. c. When clinically advisable, transition consumers out of care at the BHCC and into care with a primary provider, receiving support services and housing placement in the community. d. Stabilize and maintain a consumer’s current placement/living arrangement or transition the consumer to an appropriate level of treatment. e. Provide limited nursing care for consumers with a medical condition that has a determined course of treatment and does not require intensive diagnostic and /or invasive procedures. f. Have a policy to provide a warm, welcoming, therapeutic, and integrated approach to consumers with dignity and privacy. g. Promote the safety of staff, consumers, and visitors. Consumers, many of whom have histories of trauma, may be unable to focus on recovery and be more likely to act out behaviorally, if they feel threatened or at risk of injury, and staff cannot provide optimal care in an environment in which they feel unsafe. Therefore, the BHCC shall provide a secure physical environment and have strategies to address safety concerns as they arise.
