Latest News from Sites Professionals
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Sites Professionals Joins CA Alliance
Sites Professionals is pleased to announce that we have joined the California Alliance of Child and Family Services as an Associate Member. The Alliance offers a range of services that benefit at-risk Californians through public policy advocacy, providing resources to community mental health, and coordinating…
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from Sites Professionals! We are so very grateful for you, and for the community of mental health service providers of which we are a part. It means so much to us to be able to serve our community and…
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Review of CARF Recertification Requirements
Our client recently added medication support services to their mental health service offerings and partnered with Sites Professionals to place a psychiatrist in their program. The addition of psychiatry services necessitated a review of their internal policies in preparation for CARF recertification.…
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Psychiatrists Available
The current hiring crunch is real, and we understand it has had a disproportionate impact on community mental health service providers, making it difficult to deliver timely services to those in greatest need. We also know that securing psychiatrists has been a…
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Supporting Timely Access to Psychiatric Care
Sites Professionals has been building relationships with psychiatrists for years. We specialize in placing them in positions in community mental health, where they have improved access to psychiatric care, particularly for those in underserved communities. Sites Professionals can support your agency with…
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E-Prescribing Required in California
Effective as of January 1, 2022, health care practitioners submitting prescriptions to pharmacies must do so electronically. Passed into law in 2018, assembly bill #2789 also has provisions for pharmacies handling prescriptions, with penalties for noncompliance including referral to state licensing boards…
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Planning for the future of mental health
There has never been a better time to revisit your plan for providing mental health services into the future. Three major forces – advances in technology, a shortage of available labor, and the ongoing pandemic – will be responsible for permanent changes…
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What is PAVE, Sign Up Now
Beginning July 1, 2021*, providers who service the Medi-Cal population will be required to use the PAVE system when submitting new applications or when making certain changes to an existing application (eg. adding a location). For various reasons, even when not creating or changing…
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SCPS 2020 Career Day
Well, it certainly looked and sounded a lot different this year. The Southern California Psychiatric Society (Virtual) Career Day was on Saturday. The event was a reminder of how much the future depends on our willingness to continue to show up and…
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New Opportunities
Thanks to the rapid adoption of telepsychiatry, as required in response to the pandemic, this year has seen an increase in opportunities for psychiatrists, patients, and mental health service agencies. The use of telepsychiatry has freed psychiatric services from the constraints of…
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Adaptable Psychiatric Services
Mental Health Agencies: We have psychiatrists available for part-time moonlighting in community mental health. Adaptable and team oriented, our psychiatrists are vetted, credentialed and insured.
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Lessons of 10 Years Spent Working From Home
My phone rings at 12:35 PM, every day Monday through Friday. It has since about 2010, when I began building my first business. I was based in Los Angeles, I had three partners in North Carolina, and we supervised development teams in…