Integrated Care
Integrated care is the coordination of general and behavioral health care needs in an effort to treat not just the body but the mind.
Treating Every Individual Need
Here at Zepf Center we recognize the need to treat the whole person. This means not only will we focus on your behavioral health care needs, but for your physical and social needs as well. Our approach to Integrated Care combines medical care, mental health care and substance abuse treatment in a way that’s designed to meet your own individual needs.
Zepf Center’s team will work with your Primary Care Physician as needed to meet all your medical needs. Or if needed, we have on staff primary care physicians who can treat your medical needs. In addition, we offer OB/GYN services, lab services, a pharmacy and hospital liaisons to better serve your physical needs.
Zepf Center works with you to develop an Integrated Care Plan, in which care is coordinated among all your providers, both here at Zepf Center and with your external providers. The goal is to help you become as healthy as possible — mentally, physically and spiritually!
Our Programming for Integrated Care
Throughout Zepf Center are several programs and services that embrace the concept of Integrated Care. They include the following:
Operated at our Collingwood Ave location, The Wellness Center facilitates numerous programs for our adult and our child and adolescent clients. Program areas include gardening, nutrition, fitness, health and wellness, art, and social. Located at the Wellness Center is gym with equipment including weights, treadmills and elliptical machines with scheduled hours for client and staff use.
Located at our Nebraska location is a fully operational pharmacy run by Genoa Healthcare ( www.genoahealthcare.com). Zepf Center patients are able to utilize this pharmacy to fill their prescriptions. In addition the pharmacy will deliver medication to clients at any of the Zepf Center locations.
PathLabs, Inc. (http://pathlabs.org) provides on-site phlebotomy services at Zepf Center's Nebraska location. In addition to scheduled appointments, walk-in hours are also in place to ensure that our patients are completing their needed lab work.
As an option, patients can choose to use our Telepsychiatry services instead of seeing an onsite psychiatrist. Telepsychiatry is traditional psychiatric services provided over a secure connection between two computers. Patients are in an office equipped with a monitor (TV), small camera, speakers and microphone. Instead of having the psychiatrist seated in the room with the patient, interaction with be via the computer connection (similar to skype, FaceTime, web conferencing, etc). They have the ability to see the provider, hear the provider over the speakers, and be able to talk to the provider through the microphone. The provider will be able to see, hear and speak to the patient through the equipment in his off-site office.