Achievements
Fiscal Year 2005 Achievements
The staff and management of MCDC continue to be dedicated and work relentlessly to improve the services and environment of the facility to provide a productive and professional work and treatment environment. FY 05 evidenced the following accomplishments of which we continue to be proud of.
- Successfully maintained our dual state licensure as a Healthcare Facility and Chemical Dependency Treatment Facility.
- Successfully negotiated and ratified two labor bargaining unit contracts.
- Implemented a parenting program to incorporate in treatment for our patients with children.
- Created a special room for patient parents to meet and productively interact with their children and work on parenting skills.
- Awarded a $10,000 grant from DPHHS for HIV testing, education and counseling for our patients.
- Continued to implement advances in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a best practice model, through continued training of Clinical Supervisors who: participated on a state wide DBT Steering Committee; continued to train MCDC staff; implemented Skills Training modules for patients; and identify patient DBT trainers for peer support of the model.
- Implemented a staff "Lunch & Learn", brown bag lunch hour, offering an opportunity for in-service training and educational series.
- Created a weekly electronic staff bulletin to notify all staff of various facility happenings, notices and general information.
- Restructured and reclassified both a management position as well as other ancillary staff positions, following the retirement of a management level staff in December, which provides a better utilization of limited staff resources and oversight of facility operations by developing an Operations Supervisor, a Human Resources Specialist and restructured the Administrative Support staff.
- Following the retirement of our Medical Director in December, hired a new director that is certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as well as being one of a handful of Montana physicians certified to administer a specialized medication, Buprenorphrine, which allows us a rare medical treatment option for opiate detoxification.
- Continued to participate in the Rocky Mountain College Physician Assistant Preceptorship Program, providing training for an additional Physician Assistant student.
- Implemented our first annual Facility Gift Program for patients at Christmas time.
- Continued our participation in the statewide AMDD Co-Occurring Initiative by sending key staff to Train the Trainers training
- Continued to provide internships to students in the addictions field through the Mountain West Addiction Technology Center (MWATTC) pilot program at Montana Tech.
- Provided training to two Department of Corrections Programs; Community Counseling & Correctional Services in Butte and the Watch Program at Warm Springs.
Page last updated: 06/30/2006
