As part of our Summer 2020 Update, the team at Behave Health is excited to announce the roll out of some thoughtful new tools for managing the pandemic at your addiction and mental health treatment center. 

2020 has thrown quite a lot at the addiction treatment community. The pandemic has tested us in ways we could never expect. We’ve had to try new approaches to connecting with our patients as well as new approaches to keeping our patients safe while in treatment. 

On this blog, we’ve written about how as many as 5% of addiction treatment centers may close by the time the pandemic is over. We’ve also covered the need for treatment centers to pivot to intensive outpatient programs where inpatient programs have been the norm, especially in the areas hit hardest by the pandemic. Many centers are facing business reorganizations spurred by the Small Business Reorganization Act, while others are changing protocols to allow for proper social distancing in their facilities. 

The common thread among all centers right now is CHANGE.

In order to help foster a productive and efficient environment amid all of the chaos, we’ve developed some simple tools to help your center deal with the pandemic and mitigate program risks associated with the Coronavirus. 

Read on to learn about the top three features we’ve added in the Summer 2020 Update that can help your center thrive during these difficult times.

We’ve Included COVID-19 Questions on the Addiction Treatment Application Form 

Now your organization can easily screen new admits for COVID-19 risk factors when they fill out our customizable online application. 

Accessible from any device at any time, our cloud-based application allows your new admits to initiate treatment without waiting. We know that it’s vitally important to be ready and available for patients in moments of willingness to change - and we know that those windows of opportunity can be fleeting. Our online application lets new admits complete their application from their phone at any time, day or night, removing one of the key barriers to treatment for every patient. 

Our new application forms’ COVID screen questions include: 

• Are you at risk for exposure to any communicable disease, or have you been in contact with someone who has? 

• Are you experiencing shortness of breath, coughing, fever, or other symptoms of Coronavirus and/or flu?

• Are you at risk for exposure to Coronavirus? 

• Have you traveled outside of the country in the last 30 days? 

Taking Temps to Screen for COVID at your Addiction Treatment Center? We’ve Got You Covered 

Our Summer 2020 Update makes it easy to include temperature information on the Vital Signs portion of every patient’s EHR. No more scattered sticky notes with temperature logs. Access all of your temperature information in one place, alongside all other vital signs where it belongs. 

We’ve Added COVID-19 Test Results to Our Communicable Disease Testing Roster 

Sometimes things that should be simple aren’t simple at all. A lot of EHR users complain that there’s nowhere to add COVID-19 test results in their EHR because the test is new. There’s just no “box” to put the information. What ends up happening is that clinicians add results in the “comments” or “notes” section of whatever program they were using to record health information. The result? Inconsistent records and a lot of aggravation. 

Our Summer 2020 Update is determined to get you to stop hiding COVID-19 test results in your EHR. We’ve added COVID-19 testing to our communicable disease test section. Simply add the date of the test and the result - positive or negative - and extra comments you may have about the test. There’s also room to add an attachment - like an official test result print out - to the COVID-19 test result record. 

Simple, clean, easy.

Behave Health: We’re Here to Help Your Addiction Treatment Center Succeed

As always, we at Behave Health take our lead from you - our users in the addiction treatment and behavioral health treatment community. 

Have we missed something? Got a suggestion? It’s our mission to make life easier for the addiction treatment community, so let us know how we can help! 

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