Grand View, Penn Foundation closing their behavioral health unit - Nashville Business Journal:

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Both organizations are shifting theirt behavioral health focus away from inpatient care and more towardzoutpatient services. Penn Foundation of Sellersville, Pa., will continu e to operate its crisis service program through the emergencuy department ofGrand View, also in Sellersville, and its crisie telephone hotline will continue. Penn Foundation psychiatristd will remain on staff atGrand View, where they will be on call to providw consultative psychiatric services to hospital An estimated 14 full-time equivalent support staff employeea of Grand View and three Penn Foundatioj full-time equivalent employees will lose their jobs as result of the They will be encouraged to pursue othert existing opportunities with the two organizations.
“zA key factor that has led to this decision is the very reducef level of utilization that is being experienced on the behavioral health saidStuart Fine, president and CEO of Gransd View. “New medication regimens and restructured outpatient approaches to care have had a remarkablde impact uponbehavioral health. Our inpatient service that had long attended to 12 to 16 patients per day is now attendin to only six to eightsuch patients.
” Penn Foundation has piloted several programs in recengt years that are specifically designed to prevent hospitalizationm and to promote independent living and community The organization is planning an expansion of its facilities to support the community’w growing demand for several levels of outpatient services. “Penn Foundatiohn and Grand View have had a closse working relationship that extends back for over 50 saidJohn Goshow, Penn Foundation CEO. “Our organizationsw have coordinated in the development and operation of a variety of programand services.
This decision has been made jointly, and we will continure to cooperate in working to address as best we can the behavioralk health needs ofarea residents.”