TP33 - On-demand Urgent Care: Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Those Who Can't or Won't be Seen in a Traditional Clinic

Deep-dive into the development of a network of mental health and substance use treatment urgent care programs attached to traditional licensed outpatients clinics that delivers on-demand services to people traditional clinics have been unable to serve. Find out how on-demand services provide stability and prevent crisis escalation, provide cost savings to the regional behavioral health system through reduced psychiatric emergency department visits, offer medication-assisted treatments as a gateway to ongoing care and provide bridge prescriptions and connections to care to people at risk of discontinuing psychiatric treatment. Regulatory concerns for service delivery under this model are explored.