Transforming Lives - The Newsletter of The Harris Center Issue 1 - Summer 2016
A ribbon cutting marked the
inauguration of the new PHCRU on
Friday, May 13, 2016
Transforming Lives
Summer 2016
The New Post-Hospitalization Crisis Residential Unit
A residential facility for persons discharged from psychiatric hospitals
The Harris Center for Mental Health
and IDD recently hosted an Open House
and inauguration for its new PostHospitalization Crisis Residential Unit
(PHCRU). Funded by the Texas 1115
Healthcare Transformation Waiver,
this one-of-a-kind, cost-effective
program will focus on furthering each
individual’s work toward stabilization
and reducing costly emergency room
visits, incarceration and rapid hospital
readmissions in the future.
The goal of the PHCRU is to treat
individuals in a less restrictive
voluntary setting during the critical
time immediately following discharge
from psychiatric hospitals. Program
participants will be served in a protected
environment where intense psychosocial
skills are taught, practiced and modeled.
Participants will further stabilize and
socialize while learning skills that are
specifically designed to enhance their
ability to successfully return to the
community.
Average daily costs at a psychiatric
hospital range from $500 to over $1000.
Daily costs at the PHCRU are below $350.
Intensive efforts at the PHCRU will help
link clients with essential community
services such as ongoing healthcare, food
stamps, assistance from state agencies,
legal services, homeless courts, access
to clothing, mail services, residential
chemical dependency treatment and
housing.
Residents will join clinical groups that
will support their recovery plan, and
participate in chore assignments.
Skills taught at the PHCRU will help
enable individuals to avoid the everpresent risk of rapid re-hospitalization
and to better manage or prevent crises in
the future.
During the inaugural event, guests
toured the 24-resident facility, and they
had the opportunity to hear from PHCRU
staff members on their plans for the
facility. Open house attendees included
representatives from the offices of
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, Harris
County Commissioner Gene Locke,
Harris County Commissioner Steve
Radack, State Representative Jessica
Farrar, State Representative Gilbert Peña,
and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson
Lee. Congresswoman Jackson Lee’s
representative presented a Congressional
Certificate of Recognition to The Harris
Center PHCRU in honor of its opening.
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A “health club for your mind”
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A special documentary
INTERPRETATION SERVICES
Sharing understanding,
spreading hope
TEXANS RECOVERING
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Helping flood survivors
THE COFFEEHOUSE
Brewing a fresh new you
Transforming Lives | Summer 2016
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