Willowbrooke at Floyd expands its Behavioral Health Services
Contributed photo Meagan Thompson, assistant director of Behavioral Health
For the past 24 years, Floyd Behavioral Health Center provided adult psychiatric services in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. Now, as the 53-bed hospital celebrates its 25th anniversary later this year, the service line has a new name and expanded services.
In early 2017, Floyd Behavioral Health Center changed its name to Willowbrooke at Floyd, a reflection of a new management agreement with Tanner Health System dating to May 2016 and the hospital’s new direction.
After an extensive remodel of the existing facility, Willowbrooke at Floyd now provides inpatient and outpatient services to adults, adolescents and children while introducing innovative therapies involving rhythm, art, music and certified pet therapists.
Willowbrooke Behavioral Health, a service of Tanner Health System, headquartered in Carrollton, manages Willowbrooke at Floyd, providing adults and children throughout northwest Georgia with greater access to behavioral health services. Under the management agreement, Willowbrooke at Floyd receives infrastructure support, physician and staff recruitment, and access to Willowbrooke at Tanner’s extensive line of behavioral health services for patients. Services offered include: Free behavioral health and substance abuse screenings
Adult mental health and substance abuse treatment
Adult partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs
Child and adolescent partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs Animal-assisted therapy Rhythmic therapy Equine therapy Expressive therapy — art, music and drama Inpatient hospitalization for adults Partnerships with community agencies and schools
Traditional outpatient counseling and psychiatric care
With renovations complete, Willowbrooke at Floyd expects to begin service later this spring as an emergency receiving, evaluation and treatment facility for behavioral health patients who have a mental illness or an addictive disorder and who meet clinical criteria for admission, but are unable or unwilling to provide informed consent for services.
Floyd Medical Center mental health screeners see almost 1,000 Contributed photo Willowbrooke at Floyd, 306 Shorter Ave., is introducing innovative therapies involving rhythm, art, music and certified pet therapists after extensive renovations to the facility. patients each year who are referred elsewhere for involuntary care, said Kurt Stuenkel, president and CEO of FMC. Now these patients will be able to get care locally, when appropriate.
Willowbrooke Behavioral Health operates an 82-bed inpatient behavioral health facility in Villa Rica that serves children, adolescents and adults, as well as outpatient services designed to meet patients where they are with the resources they need. Outpatient programs help promote wellness and long-term recovery, according to Michelle Dykes, director of Behavioral Health. Future plans for Willowbrooke at Floyd include exploring options for adding school-based therapists with inhome family care and intensive family intervention, she said.
FMC and Tanner Health System are part of a hospital strategic alliance formed in 2013 with Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton and West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange.
“As our relationship with Tanner has developed, we have learned that they have a record of developing behavioral health programs that help people lead healthy, productive lives,” said Stuenkel. “With their involvement in our behavioral health services, we will better be able to provide care to the whole patient.”