Why SUDS Outpatient Involves This Service
Intensive community support can stabilize serious mental illness, improve engagement, and connect patients to SUD expertise while preserving specialty addiction care.
Common Involvement Triggers
Serious mental illness with high service use, functional impairment, engagement barriers, or community-support needs that exceed routine outpatient care.
Shared-Care Responsibilities
Define community-team, SUDS, pharmacy, nursing, risk, housing, and rehabilitation responsibilities and avoid duplicate medication changes.
Handoff Essentials
Provide the longitudinal problem, service-use pattern, functional and engagement barriers, SUD treatment, medications, safety needs, and requested intensive support.
Continuity and Return Plan
Use a shared plan for medication changes, outreach, risk escalation, SUD goals, and transition when intensive-community criteria no longer apply.
Operational Boundary
Confirm current eligibility, capacity, consult names, schedules, contacts, and transfer procedures in approved VA systems.
Publicly Confirmed Sources
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