When a patient is experiencing a crisis, a quick response can save a life.
BCA’s Crisis Assessment Response Team (CART) is our mobile assessment team that works in a collaborative and supportive relationship with you as a referring agency.
Our mobile assessors can be dispatched to hospitals, nursing homes, physicians’ offices, schools, businesses, and other area agencies for on-site crisis evaluation.
Patients That Require On-site Assessment Include Those Experiencing:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Suicidal ideation
- Homicidal behavior
- Preoccupation with harming oneself
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Homicidal ideations
- Self-Mutilation
- Inappropriate behaviors (a danger to self or others)
Providing You With Vital Care
CART continues to promote patient care consistent with that of BCA Ten Lakes – striving to produce optimal mental health outcomes.
We focus on effectiveness, efficiency, and patient satisfaction. By matching the clinical needs of the patients with the appropriate treatment, we provide the referral source with a good sense of the patient’s behavioral health needs.
BCA CART Provides:
- On-site response to a healthcare or community agency
- Clinical evaluation and risk assessment
- Referral, admission, and treatment recommendations
- Immediate access to behavioral health services
- Reduction of the escalation of psychiatric symptoms and immediate crisis stabilization
- Documentation of assessment and treatment recommendations
On-site assessment often eliminates the unnecessary step of sending the patient to the emergency room, which is time-consuming and costly.
Once the patient is admitted to the BCA Ten Lakes facility, an on-call physician will oversee their overnight stay.
On-site assessment services are subject to staff availability.
As a patient at our facility, your privacy is paramount. We are required by both federal and state law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information.
We will not release any confidential health information about you or your treatment without your explicit consent. Learn more about our patient privacy agreement.
Contact BCA Ten Lakes today at 877-635-7855 to make a referral to the Crisis Assessment Response Team or for any questions you may have about becoming a community partner.
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