Medication Management
Medication management is the process of organizing and tracking a patient’s medications to ensure safe and effective use. This includes prescribing, dispensing, administering, monitoring, and adjusting medications as needed. It also involves regular communication between healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers to ensure proper medication use and prevent adverse effects.
Medication Management at AOC Outreach
Who Medication Management Is For
Functioning is assessed using a standardized assessment tool, the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment (CANS) for persons who are 17 years of age and younger and the ANSA for persons who are 18 years of age and older. Continued eligibility for mental health rehabilitative services for persons who are 17 years of age and younger is based on a reassessment at least every 90 calendar days, or more frequently if clinically indicated by the provider. Persons who are 18 years of age and older are reassessed every 180 calendar days, or more frequently if clinically indicated by the provider.
About Treatment Planning
Mental health rehabilitative services are part of a person’s treatment plan and are intended to:
- Reduce a person’s functional impairments resulting from serious mental illness (SMI) for adults.
- Reduce serious emotional disturbance in children.
- Restore a person to his/her optimal functioning level in the community.
The treatment planning process for mental health rehabilitative services requires the active participation of the Medicaid eligible person or LAR when necessary due to the person’s age or legal status. Treatment plans are based on a comprehensive assessment and must address the person’s strengths, areas of need, the person’s preferences, and descriptions of the person’s treatment goals.
Medication Training and Support
Medication training and support services consist of education and guidance about medications and their possible side effects. It is curriculum-based training and guidance that serves as an initial orientation for the person in understanding the nature of his/her mental illnesses or emotional disturbances and the role of medications in ensuring symptom reduction and increased tenure in the community. Medication training and support includes:
- Assisting the person to manage symptomology and maximize functioning.
- Understanding the concepts of recovery and resilience within the context of the serious mental illness.
- Developing an understanding of the relationship between mental illness and the medications prescribed to treat the illness.
- The interaction of medication with other medications, diet, and mood altering substances.
- Understanding the overdose precautions of the person’s medication.
- The identification and management of potential side effects.
- Learning self-administration of the person’s medication.
- Necessity of taking medications prescribed and following the physician’s or other qualified health care professional’s orders.
Medication training and support is available to eligible children, youth, and adults. The LAR or primary caregiver may receive medication training and support services on behalf of an eligible adult, child or youth.
No Out of pocket costs
AOC is 100% medicaid funded. That means that families have no out of pocket costs for services.
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