Psychiatric Services

The vendor is required to provide psychiatric services for youth placed in or committed to department custody and residing at brookwood secure center for youth, goshen secure center, highland residential center, and industry residential center.
- The psychiatrist(s) or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners (PNP) use standard department forms for the psychiatric evaluation (1-1½ hours) and for the 30-minute psychiatric follow-up visits.
- order psychiatric medications and monitor their benefits and side effects.
- attend weekly mental health rounds with clinicians, teachers, and a representative from the line staff to discuss youth in his/her caseload, as well as other youth present with symptoms that may indicate mental health needs
- utilize the minimum number of medications necessary to treat target symptoms and shall obtain approval from a supervising psychiatrist in instances where additional medications are deemed necessary.
- monitor psychotropic medications as is clinically appropriate with laboratory tests, department, and aims, as outlined in the psychiatry manual.
- obtain informed consent from guardians.
- conduct emergency evaluations while on the facility grounds the facility, the provider(s) will not be formally on call.
- Provider(s) are asked to be available by phone to communicate with clinical or medical staff about urgent matters when practical. this is typically an infrequent event.
- Division the right to allow for telepsychiatry services it is determined to be in the best interest of the state.
- The determination to allow for telepsychiatry is solely and completely at the discretion of department.
- The provider(s) will attend trainings as requested by department.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: February 18, 2025