Agreement enhances local commitment to behavioral healthcare
LAKE COUNTY, Ind. – Franciscan Health is partnering with US HealthVest to provide management services for behavioral health programs across its Lake County hospitals beginning May 1.
Under the agreement, US HealthVest will manage adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric units, the detoxification program and outpatient psychiatric services at Franciscan Health Dyer. In addition, US HealthVest will provide psychiatric consultation and navigation services in the emergency departments at Franciscan Health Crown Point, Dyer and Munster.
Adolescent programs at the St. Francis Center at Franciscan Health Dyer will remain under Franciscan Health’s management. All physicians within the Franciscan Physician Network will continue to be employed by Franciscan Health.
“Franciscan Health is pleased to welcome US HealthVest to Northwest Indiana,” said Franciscan Health Crown Point, Dyer and Munster President and CEO Raymond Grady. “We are confident our patients in need of behavioral health services, as well as their families, will receive the highest level of expert, compassionate care with the enhanced management services provided by US HealthVest.”
US HealthVest is a leading behavioral hospital company with a strong regional presence across Illinois and Indiana.
“We are proud to partner with Franciscan Health and bring our proven operating model and clinical expertise to enhance the delivery of high-quality psychiatric care across Northwest Indiana,” said US HealthVest President and CEO Richard Kresch, MD.
About Franciscan Alliance: The Franciscan Alliance healthcare ministry began in Lafayette, Ind. in 1875. Today, Franciscan Alliance is a large Catholic health care system in the Midwest with 11 hospital campuses, more than 19,000 employees and a number of nationally recognized Centers of Health Care Excellence. Hospitals include Franciscan Health Carmel; Franciscan Health Crawfordsville; Franciscan Health Crown Point; Franciscan Health Dyer; Franciscan Health Indianapolis; Franciscan Health Lafayette; Franciscan Health Michigan City; Franciscan Health Mooresville; Franciscan Health Munster; Franciscan Health Indianapolis Orthopedic Hospital and Franciscan Health Rensselaer.
About US HealthVest: US HealthVest is an innovative developer of psychiatric hospitals with locations in the Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Seattle and Boston markets. Our portfolio of hospitals provides specialized psychiatric care to all patients across a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient services. Throughout the US HealthVest system, we are united in our mission to deliver quality, compassionate care to all patients, regardless of ability to pay.
