Virginia Exceeds Performance Target by 3.4%: New IT Helps Show Community-Based Service & Readmissions Program Successes

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Statistics Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) performance measurements show that the state has exceeded—by 3.4%—its target of increasing the proportion of consumers served in intensive community-based services per every single occupied state facility bed. For the 2008 fiscal year, DBHDS achieved a ratio of 4.34 consumers per single occupied state facility bed. In addition, DBHDS evaluated the percentage of consumers who were discharged from state facilities after a 60-day continuous stay then re-admitted within 365 days; it . . .