ESNO Health Group providers deliver psychiatric services at Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, and Adult Daycare Centers.
We bring our expertise to your establishment weekly or monthly and as needed to provide the following:
- Psychiatric Evaluations
- Competency/ Capacity Evaluations
- Medication management
- Management of mood disorders, thought disorders, and dementia
- Gradual Dose Reductions of Psychotropics
- Psychotherapy services
- Improved Quality Measures, including Medicare Star Ratings and HEDIS
- Participation in monthly Pharmacy & Therapeutics meetings
- Coordination with PRP Programs to support qualified adults
- Direct admission to Levindale Geriatric Hospital
- ER transfer when necessary
- Regular weekly or monthly visits to handle routine consultations
- Less than 3 hours turnaround time for psychiatric emergencies
- Services tailored to your facility needs.
Consider for Referral: Patients on psychotropic medications, including antidepressants, anxiolytics, antipsychotics, hypnotics, and memory enhancers.
Consider for Referral: Patients with a history of a psychiatric diagnosis, including adjustment, mood disorders, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, dementia or delirium; psychotic disorders including schizophrenia; personality disorders; and substance use disorders.
Consider for Referral: Patients struggling with behavioral symptoms, such as agitation, anxiety, depression, hallucination, delusions, paranoia, sleep/wake disturbances, grief, and a change in mental status.
Consider for Referral: Patients with medical conditions affecting mental health such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Stroke, Epilepsy, Traumatic Brain Injury or a terminal illness including cancer.
EMERGENCIES
Psychiatric emergencies are handled within 24 hours by the practice. Facility medical providers, including MDs, PAs, and NPs, can handle emergencies when psychiatric providers are not in the facility.
Emergencies are defined as a high risk to the safety of self or others. Emergencies are to be communicated using telephone calls and handled via telehealth, in-person visits, transfer to ER, or Levindale Geriatric Hospital.
TRANSFER TO LEVINDALE AND HOSPITALS
Practice providers are very experienced in direct transfers to psychiatric hospitals, including Levindale Geriatric Hospital, and work closely with psychiatrists and neurologists at local Baltimore area hospitals, including MedStar Health hospitals, LifeBridge Health hospitals, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the University of Maryland Medical Centers at Baltimore.
