Eastern Oregon Children's Multi-Treatment Center – Unofficial Blog

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EOCMTC’s goal is success for every child and family. Here they continuously evaluate their treatment services and the treatment outcome data researchers collect and strive to improve services. It is doctors’ way to be sure that each child improves in treatment.

EOCMTC is proud of the quality and effectiveness of our treatment services for children and families. Their accreditation guarantees that EOCMTC meets national treatment service and improvement standards for residential centers.

EOCMTC’s treatment improvement rates far exceed the national mean for all children’s residential treatment centers. Multi-treatment approach, using school, home and community as therapeutic milieus integrated with center-based psychiatric services and clinical supervision, is unique among residential treatment centers. Employees know multi-treatment works because children and families who come to them for treatment tell so. State and federal monitoring of treatment plans and documentation of treatment outcomes for each child, using measures such as the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale, confirms their progress.

This graph compares EOCMTC’s treatment improvement rates with all other centers over two and a half years of national data collection by the CHARPP Improvement Measurement Program. The last six months of data shows EOCMTC treatment improvement rates were more then 23% higher than the mean for all centers and 93% higher than low-performing centers.

The Eastern Oregon Children’s Multi-Treatment Center is the only program east of the Cascade Mountains providing hospital level psychiatric care in Oregon. The majority of the children admitted to the Center have come from communities in the 18 counties in eastern, central, and southern Oregon. Of the 241 children admitted to the Center from January 1, 1998 through September 30, 2002, 70 percent are from Oregon communities east of the Cascade Mountains.

The 241 children admitted represent 27.5 percent of the 878 children referred for service. EOCMTC is expanding capacity to meet the increased numbers of children in need of high quality psychiatric treatment services.