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Welcome To Our Services
Across the Pacific Ridge Behavioral Health campus, we understand that no two recovery journeys are the same. That’s why we will offer a continuum of care tailored to each individual’s needs. Our services are delivered through three independently operated programs designed to work in close coordination with one another: these will include our Enhanced Services Facility (ESF), Psychiatric Assessment Team (PAT), and Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment (IBHT) programs. Learn more about each below!
Our Care Team
John Smith
Licensed Therapist
Jane Doe
Behavioral Health Specialist
Tom David
Client Support Coordinator
Enhanced Services Snapshot
The Enhanced Services Facility (ESF) is a Washington State licensed residential care setting designed to support individuals who require a higher level of care than standard outpatient services and benefit from enhanced, on-site support in a structured living environment. ESFs provide 24/7 residential care with increased staffing, supervision, and clinical coordination to support stabilization and successful community placement. This model is designed to bridge the gap between hospital-level care and long-term community living for individuals with complex needs.
What is an Enhanced Services Facility?
An Enhanced Services Facility (ESF) is a licensed residential setting providing personal care and behavioral support for individuals whose needs exceed what typical residential care can provide but for whom acute inpatient hospitalization is not unnecessary. ESFs offer structured support to help residents with complex behavioral challenges stabilize, participate in daily activities, and engage in community-based care. The ESF model is designed to support safety, functional improvement, and continuity of care.
Enhanced Services Facilities (ESFs) are designed as licensed residential care settings that provide enhanced supervision, personal care, and behavioral support for individuals with complex needs who cannot be safely supported in standard residential environments. Rather than providing acute psychiatric treatment, the ESF model focuses on maintaining safety, supporting daily functioning, and addressing behavioral challenges within a structured living setting. Services are structured to promote stabilization, coordination with clinical and community providers, and continuity of care to support sustained placement and engagement in community-based services.
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Individuals leaving state psychiatric hospitals who are stable enough for community living but still have complex needs.
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People with challenging behaviors, mental health issues, or physical/cognitive impairments who can't be placed in typical assisted living or adult family homes.
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Those needing high staff-to-resident ratios, 24/7 care, nursing, personal care, and behavioral interventions.
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Individuals needing a structured environment to stabilize before moving to less intensive housing.
Program Overview
Populations Served
Psychiatric Assessment Team Snapshot
The Psychiatric Assessment Team (PAT) consists of a multidisciplinary group of mental health professionals who provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, crisis assessment, and clinical triage for individuals experiencing acute behavioral health instability. PAT services are designed to rapidly identify clinical needs, de-escalate crisis situations, and determine the most appropriate level of care — whether that’s outpatient support, stabilization services, or referral to more intensive treatment. This team-based approach ensures that individuals in psychiatric distress receive timely clinical assessment, safety planning, and linkage to ongoing supports when outpatient care alone is insufficient for safety or stabilization.
Psychiatric Assessment Team (PAT) services provide timely, structured psychiatric evaluation and clinical assessment for individuals experiencing mental health concerns. PAT is designed to identify needs, assess safety and stability, and determine appropriate next steps, including referral to outpatient services, stabilization supports, or higher levels of treatment when needed. The PAT model helps ensure individuals receive accurate assessment and clinical direction during periods of heightened behavioral health risk.
Psychiatric Assessment is designed as a short-term, assessment-focused clinical service that provides timely psychiatric evaluation and triage for individuals experiencing acute mental health needs. Rather than delivering ongoing treatment, the PAT model focuses on identifying clinical concerns, assessing safety and stability, and determining appropriate next steps in care. Services are structured to support rapid clinical decision-making, coordination with providers and systems, and connection to the most appropriate level of ongoing support to promote stabilization and continuity of care.
The PAT model is designed for adults experiencing complex mental health conditions, which may include (but are not limited to):
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Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders
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Bipolar disorder with psychotic features
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Severe major depressive disorder
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Co-occurring substance use disorders
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Other serious and persistent mental illnesses requiring clinical assessment
Populations Served
Program Overview
What is Psychiatric Assessment?
Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment Snapshot
Pacific Ridge Behavioral Health’s Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment (IBHT) represents a robust, high-support outpatient or partial hospital–level model. It lies between Enhanced Services and full residential care. IBHT is for individuals who are well enough not to reside in treatment full-time, but who need substantial, integrated therapeutic support and structure.
Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment provides structured, residential behavioral health care for individuals with complex needs who require more intensive support than outpatient services alone. This model integrates person-centered treatment planning, psychosocial rehabilitation, and skill-building interventions in a live-in setting to help individuals stabilize and transition successfully toward community living. Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment is designed for individuals whose care needs exceed less restrictive placement options but who do not require acute inpatient hospitalization.
Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment (IBHT) is designed as a structured, residential treatment service for individuals with complex behavioral health needs who require a higher level of support than outpatient services can provide. The IBHT model focuses on stabilization, skill development, and therapeutic engagement within a supportive live-in environment. Services are structured to deliver person-centered treatment, behavioral interventions, and coordinated care planning to support safety, functional improvement, and progression toward less intensive, community-based settings.
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Adults (18+) with severe mental illnesses who are stable enough to leave a state hospital but need intensive support.
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Individuals who are chronically cycling through the mental health system and need to interrupt that pattern.
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People at risk of psychiatric hospitalization or needing to prevent a return to a state hospital.
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Those residing in Adult Family Homes (AFHs) or Assisted Living Centers needing comprehensive mental health care.
What is Intensive Behavioral Health Treatment?
Program Overview
Populations Served
Goals & Outcomes
At Pacific Ridge Behavioral Health, all of our services aim to:
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Stabilize symptoms with the proper regimen
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Strengthen life skills, coping, resilience
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Enable transition to appropriate next phase of support
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Reduce risk of relapse or crisis
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Maintain community integration (work, school, relationships)
