Interface Consultation Services Update

A brief overview of Interface Consultation Services current endeavors:

I. Blog Focus - We continue to post 2 times a week on ICS and Counseling Connections. Our posts include mental health research, news and thoughts we feel providers and clients will find valuable.

II. Counseling Connections - Provides Licensed Professional Online and Telephone Mental Health Counseling, Coaching and Services.

III. PESI Seminars by ICS:

Behavioral Managed Care - How to get what your clients Need in Georgia with key information for success with managed care in April 2007. Managed Care is no fun but these skills are necessary to navigate our complicated health care system!

High Risk Callers: Responding to Psychiatric Emergencies Over the Phone. New and exciting sorely needed seminar designed specifically for clinicians, call centers, triage nurses who provide efficient assessment and treatment over the phone. Psychiatric Emergencies over the phone line are DIFFICULT and extremely anxiety provoking. General Medical Clinics are seeing more psychiatric patients. Learn the skills you didn't learn in school to assist these patients.

IV. Telemental Health Triage - We continue our day-to-day service commitment to Riverwood Center to provide professional triage services so their consumers are assured efficient and timely access to mental health services, appropriate level of care assignments and expert telephone crisis triage.

V. MPRI - Michigan prisoner Re-entry Initiative for the Mentally Ill - ICS are contracted as the Regional Care Coordinators for the Southwest Michigan Region providing services to 8 counties.

VI. Utilization Management Opportunities - We continue to provide acute care preauthorization services for Riverwood Center and in March 2007 will be providing continuing stay reviews and management of patients entire acute care episodes.

VII. College Level Course - ICS partner, Kathlene LaCour is an part-time facility member at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.We are seeking other opportunities to expand these kinds of services to agencies in our region.

Please contact us for personalized in-house and agency training for your staff via e-mail by clicking the link or call (269)929-1292.

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