Behavioral Health
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Nash Healthcare Consulting (NHC) provides on-site assessments designed to identify and mitigate behavioral health related risks as well as deliver feasible solutions. NHCβs behavioral health consultants are seasoned surveyors with senior leadership experience who bring their understanding of organizational leadership to the Behavioral Health setting.
During a mock survey, the NHC behavioral health surveyor specializing in risk management and harm reduction conducts a thorough examination of the facility, focusing on the most frequently cited standards. The areas of concern include suicide prevention, risk, and mitigation, seclusion and restraint, ligature risk assessments, treatment planning with implementation based on clinical needs, use of validated tools to improve clinical practices, and the impact of co-occurring disorders on treatment implementation. All assessments further include a detailed written report of findings and recommendations that support the facilityβs path to compliance.
NHC consultants are fluent in the most current standards. They will survey hospitals and healthcare facilities to ensure the best outcome for the patient and a survey including evaluating all updated standards against the clinical practices as well as perform a gap analysis. After the gap analysis is complete, recommendations will be made.
NHC consultants are also fully trained to provide comprehensive facility and staff evaluations including staff knowledge of the suicide risk assessment tools, deliberate risk assessment tools, patient rights, addictive services and treatment, plan of care implementation through interdisciplinary engagement, and use of seclusion and restraint.
As a service to every healthcare facility, NHC provides interim Behavioral Health staffing as a continuum when finding quality professionals is challenging.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FIRM
A women-owned business, Nash Healthcare Consulting, has been in business since 2009 employing a diversified group of licensed, practicing healthcare professionals with long-standing healthcare experience, many over forty years each. For the past fifteen years, NHC has supported domestic and international healthcare organizations with the tools and resources needed to provide high-quality care focused on accreditation preparation, quality and risk assessment, high-level disinfection and sterilization, education, and pharmacy compliance. We work diligently with our clients to incorporate and apply sustainable strategies and processes to improve healthcare organizations.
SERVICES
Delivering on-site assessments designed to identify and mitigate behavioral health and provide feasible solutions.
Conduct thorough observation of suicide prevention, risk, mitigation, plan of care implementation, and patient care provided in the following areas:
Inpatient psychiatric units
Residential psychiatric units
Residential substance use/ addictions units
Partial Hospitalization/ Intensive Outpatient Services
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Use Services
Provide focused assessments designed to evaluate the hospital or healthcare facilityβs behavioral health program:
assess reported data
assess data outcomes
apply interventions to improve undesirable trends
Seasoned behavioral health surveyors in senior leadership roles fluent in the most current standards evaluate hospital and healthcare facility staff on their knowledge and application of the following:
Suicide risk assessment tools
Deliberate risk assessment tools
Patient rights
Addiction based services and treatment
Plan of care implementation through interdisciplinary engagement
Use of seclusion and restraint
The NHC team takes the process one step further by also strategically correlating and connecting how the aforementioned activities are integrated into behavioral health services.
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Colleen Sawyer
MS, BSN, RN
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Gayle Nash
MPH, BS, RN
President & CEO
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Thomas Zastowny
PhD
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Stacey Shaw
DSW, MSW, BSW, LICSW, SUDP
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Mark Halal
BSP, MSW, MHS
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Claire Burchfield
MSW, BA, LCSW, CPHQ