|
Path: About Us
 |
The WCMHA is responsible for planning, developing and
monitoring a system of services for the more than 5,000 elders, adults, children
and adolescents of Washington County with mental illness. The priority
population served are individuals with mental illness and low income.
Planning
 |
Three year mental health plan |
|
One year mental health plan review |
|
Needs assessments for specific populations |
|
Soliciting consumer input |
Development
|
Request for Proposals for specialized mental health programs |
|
Use multi-provider task force to design and implement needed services |
|
Provide technical assistance to agencies to meet State regulatory criteria |
|
Recruit additional service providers |
|
Solicit consumer operated support services |
Coordination
|
Track high service users |
|
Chair inter-agency consumer planning meetings |
|
Provide consultation to inpatient psychiatric facilities regarding discharge
planning process to facilitate consumer’s smooth transition to community |
|
Provide education and information to the community |
Financial Management
|
Seek sources of funding |
|
Allocate funding for needed services through grants and fee-for-service
mechanisms |
|
Review financial trends |
|
Forecast predicted expenditures |
|
Seek more cost effective service options |
Monitoring
|
Fiscal |
|
Quality of service: |
|
Assist with and review plans of correction, in conjunction with
Licensing and Certification Administration |
|
Measure service outcomes and consumer satisfaction |
|
Track local and State hospital utilization |
|
Resolve formal consumer, family and agency grievances |
|
Inspect residential housing |
|
Develop Management Information System to provide needed service and
fiscal data |
|
Develop and monitor outcome measures of grant funded programs
|
|
|
|
|
|
Last Updated: August 05, 2005
|
