Institute for the Mentally Ill (IMD)
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IMDs are long term care psychiatric facilities, licensed by State DHS and/or State DMH, that are contracted by DMH to provide care for persons who no longer meet criteria for acute care but are not clinically ready to live in a board and care facility or to live independently.
An IMD is also a locked facility for patients that are higher functioning than a sub-acute level, but still require a locked setting. Again, the PG or family member acts as the conservator, and the patients length of stay is determined by their mental stability and improvement.
“IMD exclusion,” to allow Medicaid in CA Medi Cal to pay for short-term stays of adults ages 21-64 in psychiatric hospitals and facilities.
Note: IMD stands for “Institutions for Mental Disease,” an outdated term that remains in federal law.
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- dhhs.ne.gov
- nami.org/IMD-(Institutions-for-Mental-Disease)-Exclusion
- Click here for the other 5 levels of care psychcentral.com
- lacounty.gov IMDInformation
- Listing of IMD’s in Los Angeles – Resources Directory
- How to choose a mental health facility
- IMD Training Manual 270 pages
- How to write a personalized treatment plan
- Positive Psychology.com treatment plan
- Rights for Individuals in Mental Health Facilities admitted under LPS
- Mental Health Services Act – CA – Fiscal Year Update 2018 – 2019
- Issues with Private Insurance vs Medi Cal. One can go back on re enroll back to private coverage – Class Action Lawsuit – Kaiser
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- PBS Bedlam VIDEO In an effort to get to the bottom of the current mental health crisis in the U.S., psychiatrist and documentarian Kenneth Paul Rosenberg M.D. chronicles personal, poignant stories of those suffering from mental illness, including his own family, to bring to light this epidemic and possible solutions. Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam takes viewers inside Los Angeles County’s overwhelmed and vastly under-resourced psych ER, a nearby jail warehousing thousands of psychiatric patients, and the homes — and homeless encampments — of people affected by severe mental illness, where silence and shame often worsen the suffering. See Trailer Available till October 30th
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Can someone come to the facility from another state
I would imagine so. Have your therapist check with the specific institution you want to go to. I’m not a therapist… I haven’t read 1/2 the material I’ve linked to here.
Would it be helpful to have an online mental health self-test to identify possible areas that might need treatment?
https://www.sanctuaryoftransformation.com/mental-health-self-test/
i have a granddaughter who is mentally ill . Her diagnosis is Bipolar Schizophrenia .
She is currently in Los Angeles Ca , i have LPS Conservatorship ,she has medi cal insurance .
I am trying to get her moved closer to where i live which is here in Temecula,Ca .
My question is do you except her insurance or do you except Medi Medi ?
First of all, I’m not an IMD. I’m an Insurance Agent drafted to help out with Obama Care and Medi Cal expansion and I don’t get paid for Medi Cal and barely minimum wage for Obama Care. So, you would need to check with any IMD you are considering transferring your granddaugther to.
Here’s some research on how IMD’s get paid. Basically it’s all Medi Cal:
https://lac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMD_exclusion_fact_sheet.pdf
If she has insurance, that would pay before Medi Cal, as I understand it. https://medi-cal.healthreformquotes.com/faqs/dual-coverage/
I was wondering if I can put my son in a IMD facility from collage hospital Costa Mesa.
He has cal optima and me and my wife are LPS conservators.
He is unable to function in society and unable to provide for himself and hygiene.
He is also a marijuana as meth user.
Discharge planning
Australian government
https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/about/key-staff/chief-psychiatrist/chief-psychiatrist-guidelines/discharge-planning-guidelines