The Short-Term Behavior Stabilization Unit (BSU) is a specialized three-bed treatment unit with a multidisciplinary team consisting of Board-Certified Behavior Analysts, Registered Behavior Technicians, medical professionals, speech language pathologists, and other disciplines as needed.

The BSU offers a controlled, safe treatment environment for individuals from early adolescence and up that are experiencing behavioral or psychiatric symptoms that temporarily prohibit them from living safely in their community setting. This unit is designed to provide short-term treatment, with an average expected stay of four to six months.

Individuals admitted to the BSU will be provided with intensive, individualized behavioral assessment and intervention procedures, psychotropic medication evaluations, and services from the interdisciplinary team as needed.

Admissions criteria for the BSU include the following:

• Individuals must be Kansas residents
• The individual has active treatment needs (e.g., communication, hygiene, daily living skills, medication compliance, community safety, etc.)
• Individual has a diagnosis of an intellectual developmental disorder as determined by a healthcare provider licensed to provide a DSM diagnosis
• Supporting documentation is included detailing how admission to an ICF-IID is essential to the client’s health and safety. This may be due to significant behavioral barriers, including but not limited to, physical aggression toward others, self-injurious behaviors, property destruction, inappropriate sexual behavior, and/or elopement
• Currently in crisis as evidenced by being medically stabilized in an emergency room, at risk for incarceration, or at risk of becoming homeless
• Community support team has an initial discharge plan and has consented to the discharge criteria
• Before and following discharge, cross-training with the individual’s community support team is provided to ensure generalization and maintenance of the individual’s acquired skills

Admissions requests for the BSU must begin the gatekeeping process with the individual’s local Community Developmental Disabilities Organization (CDDO). For questions about services provided or regarding the waitlist, please email the BSU Director or call 620-423-7469, or email the PSH Admissions Coordinator or call 620-421-6550, ext. 1788.