MISSION
Lead in Compassionate, Patient-Centered Treatment, Discovering Solutions

VISION
Every Patient Takes Charge of Their Life

CORE VALUES
•  Respect
•  Excellent Services
•  Safety
•  Therapeutic Interactions
•  Acceptance
•  Teamwork
•  Effective Communication

Rainbow Mental Health Facility provides services to adults diagnosed with psychiatric disorders regardless of ability to pay or legal status. The hospital serves individuals from 5 counties in Kansas through collaboration of services with 3 Community Mental Health Centers. These community mental health centers refer individuals to the hospital through a screening process.

Effective January 2, 2008, Rainbow Mental Health Facility will be a Tobacco Free Hospital. On that date, no patient will be allowed to use any tobacco products on campus.

Rainbow Mental Health Facility uses the following approach to serve the acute care needs of Kansas citizens:

1. We admit the patient

We accept admissions as determined by the Community Mental Health Centers and we do his expediently, without barriers and attending to the safety and dignity of the patient.

2. Once admitted we work with the patient to define the presenting
    problem and set an initial discharge date

We recognize the need to focus treatment efforts on stabilizing the presenting problem for which the patient was admitted. Even though many of the people we serve have numerous issues that need to be addressed, an acute care hospital is appropriately used when the focus of treatment is the problem for which the patient was admitted. When setting the most appropriate initial discharge date, we ensure that the treatment team, the patient, and the community mental health center are all aware of this important date and goal for discharge.

3. We identify discharge criteria that relates to the presenting problem

We recognize that in order to stay focused on the presenting problem, we must define discharge criteria as it relates to the problem to be addressed. Setting discharge criteria ensures that the patient, treatment team and community service providers are clear about when and how the discharge will and should occur.

4. We recognize our limitations as an acute care treatment hospital

The consumers we serve may have a wide range of issues to address. However, the majority of these issues are best addressed in the community where the consumer lives. Our purpose is to treat the presenting problem and discharge to the community where community based partners can further address the range of issues the consumer needs addressed.

5. We actively involve the patient and family members

Natural supports are important to living in the community. As much as family wants to be involved and the patient is also wanting family and other supports involved, we will involve these key people. This means communicating with and including people who have an interest in the patient's recovery. The hope and expectation is that by sharing these clarifying points, we will be able to move to a consistent position with each other, those we serve, and those we work with in the community.

ACTIVE TREATMENT MODEL

Rainbow Mental Health Facility uses an active treatment model that includes the following components:

Active Treatment Is:
•  Intensive and supportive of the patient for problem ownership and recovery.
•  Focused towards the patient's presenting problem discovering solutions.
•  Structured, steady paced, and systematically developed to meet the patient's treatment plans and needs.

Active Treatment Objectives:
•  Every patient has an individualized, measurable, and a goal-directed treatment
    plan.
•  Information is presented to the patient in a simple manner, with direction, and
    based on the patient's level of motivation.
•  Every aspect of the patient's hospital experience is intentional and by design.

Active Treatment Elements:
•  A unified hospital wide treatment philosophy is implemented to provide a
    consistent and purposeful approach by staff, connecting all the treatment
    services for the patient.
•  Program and unit specific treatment models are designed to complement the
    overall treatment philosophy allowing for specialization of services and staff and
    to optimize resources towards individualized patient needs.

Active Treatment Application:
•  Clear descriptions of roles of staff members, treatment teams, team members,
    and the patient in the overall application of the program is implemented.
•  Inclusion of individual, program, and treatment modality outcome measures,
    analysis of statistical data in measuring patient progress, and follow-up of
    treatment effectiveness is integrated in the program design.
•  Multiple treatment offerings are provided during the day, evenings, and
    weekends.
•  Patients are expected to participate in the treatment program as their
    responsibility for recovery.
•  Discharge is based on measurable criteria related to the patient's progress with
    his/her treatment plan.
•  Peer support services are integrated offerings in the program.
•  Treatment protocols, expectations, and staff productivity standards are used to
    provide consistency and uniformity.
•  Treatment Progress is defined in developmental stages of recovery utilized to
     measure patient progress.

Active Patient Involvement:
•  Patients are actively involved in the treatment decision and application process
    and measurement of progress through individual treatment sessions and self
   measurements of progress.
•  Patient advocacy includes peer specialists and patient advocacy team meetings
   and groups.

Active Patient "Self Measures":
•  Daily treatment goal setting groups, reviews, and schedules are integrated in the
    program.
•  Use of patient checklists, charts, and journals to measure mood, emotions,
    attitudes, etc.
•  Self assessment forms for groups and individuals are included in treatment
    sessions.
•  Weekly self evaluation checklist and out-come measures are provided for self
    awareness.

Description of Programming

Treatment Teams
Upon admission, each individual receives a comprehensive initial assessment to assist in planning and delivering individualized treatment. The Interdisciplinary Treatment Team (IDT) which includes the patient, Psychiatrist, Registered Nurse, Social Worker, and Psychologist/Clinical Therapist, works together to develop an active treatment plan. This plan establishes criteria for discharge, goals, objectives, and treatment interventions designed to restore or improve the patient's level of functioning, address the presenting problems, to facilitate recovery, and to promote a healthy return to community living.

Treatment services are provided in individual and group settings by medical and mental health professionals. Treatment is focused so that every aspect of the patient's experience at the hospital is purposeful and by design. All treatment staff function through the team model in order to promote a coordinated and active effort to provide comprehensive patient care. In addition to the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team (IDT), treatment staff serve on teams such as the Psychological and Therapy Services Team (PTS) and the Unit Services Team (US). These teams work in tandem with the patient to see that treatment is seamless throughout the hospital and coordinated effectively with the community.

Hospital Units and Treatment Center
Rainbow Mental Health Facility consists of two (2) units. Each unit consists of 3 smaller sections, each section with 7 to 10 beds. Treatment is typically provided off-unit at a Treatment Center specifically designed to provide an array of treatment options. The Treatment Center also provides opportunities for leisure, fitness and other activities.

HISTORY
Rainbow MHF was built in 1973 as an extension of Osawatomie State Hospital (OSH). Initially, the doors were opened for day hospital patients transferred from OSH. Rainbow MHF was converted to an independent facility in 1974. Since that time, Rainbow MHF has undergone many physical and organizational changes to meet the needs of mental health consumers.

Through its 26-year history, Rainbow MHF has been responsive to the dynamic needs of consumers and families, and this trend continues today.

Rainbow MHF provides services to consumers and families, covering all major psychiatric disorders. Services are provided regardless of financial status, insurance coverage, or whether legal status is categorized as voluntary or involuntary. Rainbow MHF's catchment area for adults includes persons who are the responsibility of Wyandot MHC, Johnson County MHC, and The Guidance Center. Until recently, Rainbow provided services children and youth in the OSH catchment area. The Children and Youth Services Program was closed on June 30, 2007 as a result of the 2007 Kansas Legislature appropriation of funding to out-source this program to KVC Behavioral Healthcare in Kansas City, Kansas.