Behavioral Health Services
Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry
Society loses almost $250 billion in direct and indirect costs each year to mental illness and substance abuse.
Whether or not you have a psychiatric program you are treating psychiatric patients
Increasingly, hospitals across the country, in rural as well as urban locations, are faced with skyrocketing mental health needs in their communities without the resources to adequately meet those needs.
Is your Emergency Department experiencing problems assessing, treating or referring psychiatric patients?
Even with a psychiatric program, is the management of psychiatric patients in your hospital's Emergency Department a constant challenge?
Are you struggling with how to offer the psychiatric services needed by the community in a fiscally responsible manner?
Horizon Health Behavioral Health Services is the leader in assisting hospitals to develop their psychiatric services. Horizon programs offer client hospitals a way to achieve clinical excellence and significantly increase their financial performance – at the same time meeting the needs of patients, physicians, referral sources and payers.
Ready to implement a Horizon solution? Join our growing list of satisfied client hospitals and respond to the growing behavioral health needs of your community by contacting Horizon for a detailed program viability analysis.
Have you considered:
- 25 million people will suffer from some form of mental illness in any six month period
- Depression is the leading cause of disability world wide
- Individuals with a history of depression are as much as four times as likely to suffer a heart attack
- Schizophrenia, the most chronic and disabling mental illness, affects about 1% of the adult population or 2 million people in the United States
- Depression is a frequent and serious complication of heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer