IBHI Seminar on Improving Emergency Care For People With Behavioral Health Problems
Cost to attend is $400.

Register here for this pre-conference.

Faculty:

• Stuart Buttlaire Ph.D. Regional Director of Behavioral Health for Northern California Kaiser Permanente
• Megan Schabbing, MD Medical Director Psychiatric Emergency Services OhioHealth Behavioral Health Riverside Methodist Hospital
• Leon Evans MSW Three Bears Consulting
• Wayne Young MBA, LPC, FACHE Harris Center Houston
• Keith Brennan, J.D. Assistant Counsel  New York State Office of Mental Health
• Peter Brown MA Exec. Dir. IBHI

Time	Topic
8:00 am	Opening, Faculty Introductions and Schedule for the day
8:15 am	Hearing from the participants – getting acquainted with each other: Where are you from? What is your role in the department of facility? Briefly: What brought you to the seminar and what are the issues you are facing?
8:45 am	Brief Introduction
9:00 am	Examples of Streamlining ED Operations: Steps Toward a Safer and More Efficient Psychiatric Emergency Services. Stuart Buttlaire, Megan Schabbing, Peter Brown
9:45 am	Optimizing Throughput for a Particularly Challenging Patient Populations Megan Schabbing
10:15 am	BREAK
10:30 am	Meeting the challenge of engagement with criminal justice agencies establishing the needed treatment modalities and venues Wayne Young Developing community collaboration in achieving adequate treatment response Leon Evans
12:30 pm	LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm	Legal issues in emergency department operations related to behavioral health patients and ways to address them Keith Brennan
2:15 pm	Important topics in ED management: Suicide; Agitation Management, and the Role of Psychotrophic Medication in the ED Megan Schabbing, Stuart Buttlaire
3:15 pm	BREAK
3:30 pm	Break out groups – faculty facilitated Planning to improve your facility and program. Participants use what they have learned to develop their own plan for improvement with faculty support including improving engagement with community.
4:15 pm	Discussion of Participants plans for their own Emergency Departments
4:45 pm	Summary and evaluation
5:00 pm	Adjourn

Email peter@IBHI.net for more information!