GEO Care, Inc.
Residential Treatment Services
In 1997, GEO branched into the residential health services arena with its wholly-owned subsidiary GEO Care, Inc. Since then, GEO Care has become an integral part of our business platform by establishing itself as a premier provider of mental health management and treatment services for civil, forensic, and special needs psychiatric patient populations.
GEO Care provides high-quality, innovative and effective behavioral and other special needs health care in an effort to promote recovery and empower the people we serve to acquire and use the skills and supports necessary to achieve maximum independence, success, and satisfaction. The formation of GEO Care is part of a planned program for diversification into businesses related to our core services and builds on our expertise in comprehensive health care, including alcohol and drug dependency services, group and individual therapy, as well as other institutional health care programs.
GEO Care has been partnering with state and local government agencies for over 10 years. Since then, we’ve revolutionized our operations and provide services in the following areas:
Civil Mental Health Services – Provides civil psychiatric hospital services to severely and persistently mentally ill adults who are involuntarily committed when community treatment alternatives are no longer effective.
Forensic Mental Health Services – Provides mental health assessments and psychiatric rehabilitation to individuals who have been declared incompetent to proceed to trial (ITP) or not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI) by the state circuit courts.
Sex Offender Treatment Services – Programs designed to treat individuals who have been civilly committed and are pre-disposed to commit violent sexual acts that endanger the health and safety of others.
Correctional Health Services – Provide mental health, medical, substance abuse and other treatment services in correctional settings, including GEO's correctional facilities.
GEO Care achievements:
- Privatized the first comprehensive state psychiatric hospital in the United States.
- Significantly reduced average length of stay for civil psychiatric patients while maintaining low recidivism rates
- Decreased number of days to restore competency for forensic patients
- Provide up to 20% cost savings per bed to build and operate a new facility, over state run facilities.
- Increased amount of treatment delivered to patients
- Virtually eliminated restraint/seclusion
- Introduced recovery culture using treatment mall approach
- Ability to achieve and maintained Joint Commission accreditation in 10 months
- Dramatically increased civil and forensic bed utilization rate