#GDBHT2020 Spotlight: Rogers Behavioral Health
Rogers Behavioral Health, one of our Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech sponsors, sits down with Solome to talk about the diversity of their behavioral health programs for youth and adults and how they quickly adapted to telehealth due to COVID-19. Watch their session on behavioralhealthtech.com to see the full story:
What is Rogers Behavioral Health and what do you do?
Rogers Behavioral Health is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit provider of highly effective mental health and addiction treatment that helps people reach their full potential for health and well-being. We offer evidence-based treatment for adults, children, and teens with depression and mood disorders, eating disorders, addiction, OCD and anxiety disorders, trauma, and PTSD. In addition to a growing network of regional locations in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, Rogers operates three inpatient behavioral health hospitals, nine residential programs, and seven outpatient centers in Wisconsin. The System also includes Rogers Behavioral Foundation and Rogers InHealth. Learn more at rogersbh.org.
What kind of organizations are you typically partnering with to deliver Rogers’ services?
Helping a patient on the road to recovery means collaboration and partnership among everyone involved in the process. We work with psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, counselors, educational consultants, dietitians and emergency departments as well as schools and emergency responders and others to facilitate referrals of patients who need the higher level of specialty care that Rogers offers via inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient care.
Rogers also contracts with external partners such as Cerner for our electronic health record system and Simpler to support our work in lean process improvement.
How has COVID-19 played a role in the services you provide at Rogers?
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, Rogers Behavioral Health has remained committed to providing our patients, colleagues, and communities with mental health and addiction treatment that is critically needed at this time. To ensure patients could continue to access treatment, the Rogers team worked tirelessly to launch telehealth outpatient treatment through Rogers Connect Care. Over the past few months, we were able to serve more than a thousand patients in a secure, virtual environment, while closely monitoring patient feedback and clinical outcomes. In addition, Rogers continues to treat patients in our inpatient and residential levels of care in southeastern Wisconsin by employing a variety of safety and cleaning measures from universal masking physical distancing, and hand hygiene to eliminating visitors and having as many people as possible working from home. Rogers also offered enhanced benefits to our employees including 14 days of additional paid time off for COVID-19-related needs, help with finding and paying for childcare services, and discounts and meals when possible.
How can interested audience members get involved?
Those with potential patients can refer by calling our admissions staff at 800–767–4411 or by calling the location of interest to you or by making a referral online here. For general information about our care and treatment, or to request a tour of one of our locations, please contact a member of our outreach team.
In addition, Rogers is looking for talented, compassionate individuals to join our team and help us provide the best care possible to families in various locations across the country. Learn more and see openings at rogersbh.org/careers.
Other inquiries can be made by emailing info@rogersbh.org.
About Rogers Behavioral Health: Rogers Behavioral Health is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit provider of highly specialized psychiatric care. Rogers offers evidence-based treatment for children, teens, and adults with OCD and anxiety, addiction, depression and other mood disorders, eating disorders, trauma, and PTSD in a growing network of communities across the U.S. Backed by more than a century of experience, Rogers is leading the way on measurement-based care and use of clinical outcomes. Learn more at rogersbh.org.
About Solome: Solome Tibebu is the Founder and CEO of Cognific, a behavioral health and human services technology strategist, an early-stage investor and Founder of the Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech summit. She is passionate about frontier technologies and creative solutions which transform health equity and access. Solome and her team have consulting funds, foundations, early-stage digital health startups, large chronic disease companies, and health systems and health plans all about behavioral health technology. Solome is a board director and advisor to various non-profits and for-profit companies in behavioral health, human services and venture capital.
