Just a few months in the past, it was introduced that Neighborhood Care Companies (CCS) can be merging with Hegira Well being, Inc. (HHI) to type one of many largest behavioral well being suppliers in Wayne County. This merger of two licensed group behavioral well being clinics is predicted to be finalized this month and it comes at a crucial but opportune time.
Psychological well being and substance use therapy suppliers all through our area and the nation have been confronted with large challenges for a number of years together with a scarcity of behavioral well being personnel, improve in folks looking for therapy, and funding cuts. It’s resulted within the closures or diminished companies of behavioral well being companies and people nonetheless working should discover a method to not simply keep however to do extra with much less assets.
Higher collectively
Hegira means ‘journey’ and we’re right here to offer assist alongside the journey of life and are devoted to attaining wellness for our purchasers and group.
With a mixed 85 years’ expertise in community-based built-in behavioral and first healthcare, CCS and HHI are becoming a member of collectively to higher serve our group. A prime precedence is to make sure a clean transition for our purchasers and workers as we function as one group underneath the Hegira Well being identify.
Collectively, we’re dedicated to offering the excessive degree of care our communities have come to anticipate with extra selections to entry care with further therapy areas in western Wayne County and Downriver, expanded companies and an elevated variety of clinicians. Extra complete psychological well being and substance use companies may even enhance entry to care and permit for simpler referral and transition to the suitable degree of companies.
Though CCS gives some outpatient substance abuse companies, the merger with Hegira Well being will convey a further array of complete substance use dysfunction companies to our present purchasers together with residential therapy, detox, and medicine assisted therapy by its Oakdale Restoration Heart. Moreover, HHI is the disaster companies supplier for Wayne County.
Emphasis on built-in care
There was important effort for a number of years to maneuver towards built-in bodily and behavioral healthcare companies which reinforces the thoughts and physique connection. What has broadly been known as holistic care, primarily it’s addressing and treating the entire particular person. Thoughts, physique and spirit are intertwined and work with and off one another. Neglect one or two and we will discover ourselves dwelling a much less fulfilled and even shorter life than others.
HHI’s Complete Well being Clinic provides built-in behavioral well being and first care companies in a single setting to advertise general well being and wellness. Companies embrace bodily examination, vaccines, acute and persistent sickness care, in addition to nursing and social companies. Pharmacy and lab companies are additionally out there. These well being companies will all be expanded to the present CCS Lincoln Park web site. Each organizations have a powerful dedication to built-in care and the newly merged group underneath Hegira Well being will permit for the sharing of assets and enlargement of built-in care.
We perceive change will be difficult and we’re right here that will help you. Ought to you may have any questions or considerations, please contact us by way of cellphone at 313-389-7500. And to be taught extra about companies and packages, go to www.hegirahealth.org.
Neighborhood Care Companies and Hegira Well being, Inc. are higher collectively as one united company, and we look ahead to persevering with to serve Downriver and Wayne County residents.
In regards to the writer: Susan Kozak has been a licensed social employee for the previous 35 years and served as the manager director of Neighborhood Care Companies since 2011 and will probably be named COO for Hegira Well being Inc.
