Who we are:
Bess HCMS is a provider agency that provides home and community-based mental services to adults with serious mental illness, which include an array of services matched to each person’s needs. The goal of this program is to help the person live and experience successful tenure in their chosen community and support long-term recovery from the illness.
Our patient population is adults with serious mental illness who have a history of long-term psychiatric hospitalization, frequent arrests, or frequent hospital emergency room use. Bess HCMS uses a person-centered recovery planning approach to provide services designed to enable individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness to live independently in the community. Dimensions of personal recovery include better managing one’s physical and mental well-being, attaining stable and safe housing, engaging in meaningful daily life activities to achieve personal goals, forging and cultivating relationships with others in the community, developing a positive sense of identity, and regaining belief in one’s self. HCBS-AMH services are not time-limited, but available to the individual for as long as they need them.
