Behavioral Health Services
Geropsychiatry
Answering the needs of the growing elderly community
Major depression is a widely under recognized and untreated medical illness in older adults. As many as 40% of elderly patients who commit suicide had visited their primary care physician during the prior week.
As our country’s population continues to age, the healthcare system must find creative ways to deliver medical services to the elderly. Individuals aged 65 and above present greater challenges to the healthcare system as they are more likely than any other age group to experience chronic and/or acute illness including mental illness. Fortunately today, more than ever before, quality clinical resources exist to help those elderly people who have an acute psychiatric condition.
Would you like to better serve the needs of the growing elderly population in your community?
Are you treating elderly individuals with psychiatric disorders in your medical/surgical beds due to a lack of psychiatric programs available to meet their needs?
Are you interested in developing a program that meets the needs of the community and produces additional revenue for your facility?
Horizon Health Behavioral Health Services has been providing a full continuum of high-quality psychiatric services to hospitals since 1981. Horizon is the nation’s largest provider of geropsychiatric services and was one of the first to develop dedicated geropsychiatric services. Horizon’s team of experts has developed the hands-on expertise needed to enable client hospitals to be successful even in a highly competitive marketplace. We offer services that enhance under-performing programs or develop new inpatient, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for your hospital. We will staff a single position or every position in the program. We offer fixed fee and shared risk opportunities.
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:
- Nearly 2 million, or 6% of the 34 million Americans aged 65 and older suffer from depression
- Sever depression can increase the risk of stroke by 70%
- Almost two-thirds of nursing home residents have major depression
- The use of general medical care is twice as high among people who suffer from a mental illness