INPATIENT WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT (DETOX)

SpecialCare Hospital Management provides New Vision Detox service through Acute Care Hospital Partnerships

Hospitals across the country are facing a growing need to provide substance use disorder and mental health services. BayMark offers hospitals across the country the opportunity to deliver specialized inpatient withdrawal management, commonly referred to as detoxification or detox, and medical stabilization services to the communities they serve. Through SpecialCare Hospital Management, BayMark Health Services is able to support this need in acute care hospitals across the country including large multi-hospital systems, rural health facilities, and critical access hospitals.
SpecialCare’s flagship service, New Vision, is a hospital-based inpatient withdrawal management (detox) service for adults who are currently experiencing active or impending withdrawal symptoms from certain drugs, including:
  • Alcohol
  • Benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax)
  • Opioids (Heroin, OxyContin)
  • Stimulants (cocaine, methamphetamine)
  • Combined substances

The patients admitted to the New Vision services are scheduled and voluntary admissions, with an average length of stay of three days.

The inpatient stay includes the following aspects:

  • Pre-screening
  • Assessment
  • Admission
  • Medical stabilization
  • Appropriate discharge planning

The services provided are executed through a management contract between SpecialCare and local hospitals and tailored to the needs of the individual hospital. Contracting with SpecialCare gives each hospital:

  • Access to experienced clinicians
  • Evidence-based treatment protocols
  • On-site staff who are trained in assessment, community outreach, and discharge planning

The hospital provides licensed patient beds, physician coverage, nursing care, admitting and discharge processing, billing and collections, and all other customary activities. The patients are normally admitted to the medical floor, so nursing services are administered as part of the fixed overhead, eliminating the need for specialized nursing care.

The hospital will bill, collect and retain all patient revenue, less expenses.

SpecialCare will receive a monthly fee for the management of the service.

Benefits to the Partner Hospitals:

  • Decreased pressure on valuable ER resources
  • Effective case management & reduced length of stay
  • Meet community needs for treatment services
  • Assists in establishing more efficient handling of these cases, increasing census and revenue
  • Systematic management of withdrawal patients
  • No capital investments or renovations required
  • Non-psychiatric, voluntary direct admissions
  • Pre-screening, including medical and financial
  • Positive community impact

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