Mount Rogers Community Services 21-22 Annual Report

Programs

Mount Rogers also opened Virginia’s first Geriatric Transition Home this year. The pilot project is a place for geriatric individuals with behavioral health concerns to transition to community settings from psychiatric hospitals. The Geriatric Transition Home takes discharges from state psychiatric hospitals and prepares them to return home or live in other community settings such as nursing facilities. Additionally, the Geriatric Transition Home can divert individuals in nursing facilities from entering state psychiatric facilities. In addition to treating geriatric individuals, Mount Rogers employs a geriatric team that works with psychiatric hospitals to discharge individuals and nursing facilities to find placements and provide training. Currently, the Geriatric Transition Home houses 4 individuals and will expand to 10 in the upcoming year. Both the Crisis Receiving Center and Geriatric Transition Home were made possible through state and federal funding in addition to a sustainable billing model. Mount Rogers continues to expand behavioral health services in Southwest Virginia. We are expanding our Regional Youth Crisis Stabilization Unit to 12 beds and expanding services to the new Galax Campus in the upcoming year.

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