After Hours Messaging / Crisis Management Services
Managing after hours calls and patient crisis has always been a point
of concern for behavioral health professionals. There are many call services
that will take and convey telephone messages. Many call services will
even page the professional in the event of a patient emergency or will
refer the caller to a local crisis center or emergency room. This approach
offers little support to the client in crisis and represents significant
inconvenience to the behavioral health professional. Wellplace has responded
to this situation by developing an innovative Behavioral Health Professional
After Hours Messaging / Crisis Management Service.
Wellplace has been providing 24 hour 365 day telephone crisis management
services for nearly a decade as a component of our comprehensive Employee
Assistance Programs (EAP). Our crisis call center is staffed by highly
trained and competent behavioral health professionals consisting of master’s
level or higher clinicians (social workers, family therapists, psychologists,
psychiatrists, and professional counselors) or uniquely qualified and
trained professionals / paraprofessionals (nurse practitioners, behavioral
health technicians, and so on).
Our call center staff receives and records your calls and instantly e-mails
or faxes them to your attention. We will also hold your messages until
you call in for them. In the event your client/caller is in crisis, our
staff will professionally manage and stabilize the client. Our efforts
are documented in detail and a customized report immediately forwarded
to your attention.
Our data are not deleted from our database files until instructed by
our clients to do so. We provide this archival function as a standard
part of our Behavioral Health Professional After Hours Messaging / Crisis
Management Service. We are able to sort and query data and messages as
per your request (i.e. “How many calls did I receive from Joe Smith?
What were the dates of these calls and what was the subject of these calls?”)
Our call center telephone capabilities are impressive and include multiple
incoming lines expandable to meet our growth (based upon multiple T-1
telephone and internet connectivity), call forwarding & transfer,
caller identification, and advanced caller statistical recording.
The fee for our Behavioral Health Professional After Hours Messaging
/ Crisis Management Service is competitive with lesser services.
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