Community Behavioral Health Hospital (CBHH) – Alexandria, Alexandria

Name: Community Behavioral Health Hospital (CBHH) – Alexandria

Services: Community Behavioral Health Hospital (CBHH)

Date Opened: 06/08/2008

Address: 1610 8th Ave E, Alexandria, MN, 56308-2472

County: Douglas

Phone:3203356201

Features: 24 hours a day

Description of Services: Community Behavioral Health Hospitals are short-term, acute psychiatric hospitals. They employ evidence-based practices, which are methods of treatment that research has demonstrated are effective in supporting people with mental illness in their recovery.

Intensive, multidisciplinary services provided by the hospitals include:
* Assessment of mental, social, and physical health by psychiatrists, clinical nurse specialists, advanced practice nurses, psychologists, clinical social workers, medical physicians, and other rehabilitation therapists, as appropriate

* Development of an individual treatment plan, including medication management and 24-hour nursing care

* Active mental health treatment and programming, including the integration of important aspects of the Illness Management and Recovery model of care. This model is an individualized, person-centered approach that includes the family and community in treatment planning and implementation.

* Individualized discharge planning and collaboration with patients, family members, significant others as well as county social services and mental health case managers for transitioning back to an appropriate setting in the community

Staffed 24 hours a day, the hospitals each employ about 35 staff, including mental health professionals specializing in psychiatry, nursing, psychology, and social work.

This provider is a Medicare Certified psychiatric hospital by the Minnesota Department of Health and is subject to periodic health and safety inspections by the Department of Health or an approved accrediting agency. Inpatient psychiatric care for adults in dispersed 16-bed psychiatric hospitals.

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Area Served: Douglas