Intercept Health

Community / Behavioral Health Agency

A private or public agency usually under local government jurisdiction, responsible for assuring the delivery of community based mental health, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse and/or behavioral health services to individuals with those disabilities. Services may range from companion care, respite, transportation, community integration, crisis intervention and stabilization, supported employment, day support, prevocational services, residential support, therapeutic and supportive consultation, environmental modifications, intensive in-home therapy and day treatment, in addition to traditional mental health and behavioral treatment.

Addiction Psychiatry

Intercept Health is an Addiction Psychiatry practice in Richmond, VA with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in diagnosing and treating physical causes of mental health disorders that co-occur with or contribute to substance addiction. Addiction Psychiatrists at Intercept Health perform medical diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders that may lead to or worsen substance addiction. Addiction Psychiatry is a medical specialty focusing on diagnosing and treating mental health disorders that may play a role in or are co-occurring with substance addiction. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Addiction Psychiatry practices include anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other disorders that can cause or worsen addiction to alcohol, illegal drugs, and prescription drugs. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Addiction Psychiatry practices include conducting patient interviews, creating treatment plans, recommending diagnostic MRI, CT, or x-ray imaging, prescribing medication, creating diagnoses of mental health disorders, and referring patients to other medical specialists as needed.

Addiction Psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on evaluation and treatment of individuals with alcohol, drug, or other substance-related disorders, and of individuals with dual diagnosis of substance-related and other psychiatric disorders.

Foster Care Agency

A Foster Care Agency is an agency that provides foster care as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as "24-hour substitute care for children outside their own homes." Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes (whether payments are being made or not), group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and pre-adoptive homes.