UPDATE : Transferred to BAr None shelter 9/13/23
UPDATE 9.7.23 – working with Nexus FACTS for Placement Coordination Services. New Diagnostic Assessment 9/7.
Patient presents to the Emergency Department from a residential treatment facility, following attempted self-harm and suicidal ideation, with a plan to slit his throat with a screw. Staff monitored and stopped the patient from harming himself. The patient experienced intense emotions as he thought about the trauma he experienced at the hands of his father.
Patient was seen in the ED on 8/14/2023 with a similar presentation. Medical records indicate a hx of physical and sexual abuse, conflicts with his father, patient had pulled a knife on this father, and hx of substance abuse. Patient denies current substance use, and has 60 days of sobriety.
8/24- Patient was discharged from residential facility
UPDATE 9/7/23: Pending potential foster/emergency beds.
UPDATE 8/31/23: Possible emergency foster bed open 9/5, emergent SMRT application in process. Still waiting living placement.
13 y/o female with a history of PTSD, depression, ADHD, mild CD concerns. Patient has a history of previous psychiatric hospitalizations related to increase in SI, SIB, and/or suicide attempts. Patient currently has an outpatient therapist and children’s mental health case manager; treatment history includes outpatient therapy and psychiatric hospitalizations as well as one prior placement at Northwoods crisis stabilization program. Patient is in foster care under guardianship of St. Louis County. Patient was in a foster home prior to inpatient hospitalization but is unable to return to that placement after discharge. Patient has Ucare PMAP insurance.
Discharge Recommendations:
Continue individual therapy established provider
Continue CMHCM with established provider
Continue primary care/medication management with established provider
Establish psychiatry (SW to refer/follow up with outpatient team RE: pending referral)
Estimated length of stay:
Until placement is established by the County (Patient is medically ready for discharge as of 08/16/23)
UPDATE: Pt discharged home with improvement of some symptoms and wraparound services. CABHH and PRTF referral stand.
16 yo adopted white gender fluid/nonbinary adolescent with Albinism of Otter Tail County. No hx of attachment concerns. Delay with speech. Some historical cognitive and attentional concerns. No substance use. Expressing SI, SIB urges and lability. Hospitalized twice in early 2023 until admission to PrairieCare RTC on 4/11/23, needing a higher level of care, admitting to Inpatient 4/18/23. Patient has severe lip biting when dysregulating causing multiple lip lacerations, requiring suturing.
DISCHARGE PLANNING EFFORTS:
Primary Recommendation is CABHH; Referral made, on waitlist.
Residential Treatment or PRTF consideration:
-Avanti; referral made, declined due to aggression and seclusion history
-Northwoods; referral made, on call back list, 9 month waitlist
-North Homes; referral made, accepted, waitlist out to mid-summer/fall 2023> still would need QRTP funding*
-Gerard; referral made, reviewing, declined due to staffing needs in educational settings
-CRTC; referral made, declined
-Heartland Girls Ranch, county SW to refer
-Village Ranch, county SW to refer
PRTF:
-Grafton, referral made, denied, can reach out in a couple months for re-review due to their staffing
-NorthWoods, waitlist 12 months
-Leo A Hoffman; referral not made, only accepting Male patients
Out-of-state RTC:
Guardian declines referrals for out-of-state placement at this time
*QRTP funding is not in place- Parent does not consent to Relative Search which Otter Tail County uses in the QRTP pre placement screening process.
UPDATE 8/31/23: Discharge to family with wraparound services planned for 8/31/23 at 1300 while waiting next Gerard admission (tentative late September) as QRTP pre placement screening has now approved.
UPDATE 8/24/23: Pt remains accepted to Gerard, next admission now late September. QRTP pre placement screening team approved 60 days RTC as of 8/24/23. We will discharge home with wraparound services while waiting RTC admission.
UPDATE 8/8/23: Pt is accepted to Gerard and can admit tentative 8/21- pending preplacement screening/QRTP approval from Hennepin County.
10- year-old female with a history of anxiety, depression, social difficulties, anger and trauma. Aggressive behaviors and increase in suicidal ideations. Has participated in PHP, individual therapy, and psychiatry. Insured by BCBS PMAP.
DISCHARGE PLANNING EFFORTS:
Primary Recommendation: Residential Treatment.
Patient recommended to return to home/community with wraparound services while waiting for Residential. Discharges have been attempted, patient threatened grandmother. (Patient cannot return to mother or to grandmothers- CPS involved)
Wraparound:
Establish CMHCM (Referral to be made internally from CPS case worker)
Establish CTSS (Referral completed to Summer Counseling, reviewing; Referral completed to MN CarePartner, on waitlist, 2-3 months)
Establish FT (Referral completed to Family Attachment Center and Empower)
Continue Individual Therapy with Rachel at ELEOS Psychology Center
Continue Psychiatry with Catherine McCormick-Deaton, DO at Allina Health-St. Paul
Continue PCP at Allina Health-Maple Grove
Residential, when available due to waitlists*:
Consider Nexus-Gerard RTC (Declined due to aggression, being re-reviewed currently)
Consider Northwood Children’s RTC (Referral sent, waitlist 6-9 months)
*Juvenile Treatment Screening with Hennepin County needed to request funding for QRTP/RTC level of care. CPS worker aware of request.
Estimated length of stay:
Patient is medically ready for discharge as of 6/30/23
UPDATE: PT DISCHARGED HOME TO MOM.
Patient is a 14-year-old female with history of depression, anxiety, SI, SIB, trauma and aggressive behaviors. Has participated in PHP, RTC, and inpatient levels of care. Insured by Medicaid.
DISCHARGE PLANNING EFFORTS:
Primary Recommendation-
Establish Day Treatment (Patient currently refuses)
Continue CMHCM- Family Wise Services, contracted by Hennepin County
Establish outpatient individual therapy (CM is scheduling)
Establish med management (CM is scheduling)
Discharge has been attempted. Mother/LG will not accept patient back into the home. Patient was living at Passageways Shelter prior to admission and mother/LG consents for shelter placement at discharge. Patient’s aunt/uncle had agreed to take patient in with consent from LG, but aunt declined to pick patient up on day of scheduled discharge and rescinded the offer to accept patient.
Patient needs shelter placement due to family dynamics, thus the following are pursued-
Consider The Bridge for Youth (Denied d/t reported severity of aggression towards mother)
Consider Passageways (Denied again as of 8/16/23)
Consider Brittany’s Place (Denied d/t parent is still LG and would need to complete VPA)
Consider Hope House (No current availability, call back once per week to check)
Consider Itaskin Center Shelter (Referral sent by SW, additional referral needed by CMHCM)
Consider VOA Bar None Shelter (Referral sent by SW, additional referral needed by CMHCM)
Consider Ain Dah Yung Center (Referral sent by CMHCM, no current availability)
Consider RTC, as previously recommended by CMHCM prior to admission*-
Nexus-Gerard (Referral started by CMHCM, clinical sent by SW, awaiting records from CRTC for determination)
CRTC (Referral started by CMHCM, clinical sent by SW, declined for admission due to IQ)
*QRTP Pre Placement Screening with Hennepin County needed to approve funding for QRTP.
Estimated length of stay:
Patient is medically ready for discharge as of 7/18/23
UPDATE: Mom wouldn’t sign ROI for CRTC to she still awaits placement.
Patient is a 15 year-old with a history of PTSD, MDD, and GAD. She has a history of five previous psychiatric hospitalizations and one premature discharge from residential treatment this past spring after restricting her food and water intake (start of present hospitalization). Nutritional intake has continued to decline to the point of needing tube feeds to meet daily nutritional requirements, with symptoms more closely resembling anorexia nervosa at this time.
Patient is already connected with medication management, county case management, CPS, and psychotherapy.
Patient is an 11-year-old male presenting to Children’s Emergency Department due to increasing behavioral escalations at home. Patient has a history of trauma. Patient has not had stable housing and has been in several different placements within this last year.
Patient does not meet inpatient mental health criteria due to no ongoing or current suicidal ideation, thoughts of self-harm, or thoughts to harm others and was recommended to discharge home to his foster home with his grandmother.
Patient is presented to the ED by EMS for aggressive behavior towards staff and another resident in his group home. At the group home staff brought the patient out to his school transportation but the patient became dysregulated when he saw the driver was different from prior trips. Patient then eloped to a neighbor’s house where he entered. Staff followed and called the police. Patient was brought back to the group home, but later got into a physical fight with another resident and staff member. Police were called a second time, and patient was transported to the hospital using restraints. The patient has a history of ED visits and has had approximately 6 previous hospital admissions (5/21; 7/21; 10/21; 11/21; 12/21; 9/22). The patient has a diagnosis history of DMDD, ODD, ADHD, GAD, depression, and RAD
Pt presents to the ED via EMS for the following concerns: aggression. Pt was refusing to take her medication, and became aggressive with her parents when they tried to make her. Parents called 911 due to pt becoming aggressive with them, and punching holes in the walls. Medical records indicate mental health diagnosis of Unspecified disruptive impulse control and conduct disorder, major depressive d/o, unspecified anxiety and binge eating d/o. Pt has a rule out diagnosis of autism spectrum d/ and other neurodevelopmental disorder. Pt has a hx of mental health admissions as follow: 3/12 – 3/17/2023. Pt had frequent visits to the ED due to behavioral and emotional dysregulation at home as follow 3/20 – 3/21/2023, 3/22-3/31/2023, 04/02 – 04/03, 04/07-04/11/2023, 04/18/23, and 4/19- 04/20/2023.
