Services Provided

Medical:

• Nursing Supports: The registered nurse assesses individual’s health status, identifies healthcare needs, and annually develops a nursing plan of care. Nurses provide both direct and indirect supports and are available 24 hours a day for emergency calls.

• Psychiatric Services: A part-time psychiatrist provides: bi-monthly visits to review behavioral medications and progress of behavioral support plans, documentation for prescribing physicians, and complete psychiatric evaluations or discharge summaries as needed. Some individuals may use psychiatrists and services provided by local community or mental healthcare centers.

• Technical Assistance: The nurse and psychiatrist are available on an on-call basis for consultation for emergencies.

Individual Plan Development/ Clinical Assessment:

The Program Manager coordinates all services, interacting with all systems involved in the adult's live (e.g., family, work sites, legal and community contacts.) Evaluations are based on individual need and may include: educational/vocational, nursing, psychological, psychiatric, speech and language, occupational therapy, physical therapy, counseling, dietary, sexuality, community integration, social contacts, and home living skills.

• Therapy Services: The Psychologist or consulting therapist may provide individual, group, and on some occasions family therapy sessions when indicated in the individual support plan.

• Case Management Services: Each individual is assigned a Case Manager whose responsibility is to support the individual and monitor the progress of the individual goals and objectives.

• Multidisciplinary Team Meetings/ Quarterly Team Meetings

• Treatment Progress and Reporting

Additional Service Provided:

• Clothing / Personal Needs

• Quality of Life Outcome Indicators: A quality of life outcome survey is completed on an annual basis for all individuals supported in adult services. This tool is utilized to indicate progress in outcome areas and in the design of goals and objectives for the upcoming year. Progress indicators include: community integration, social contacts/relationships, and supported employment/alternative day, home living skills as well as health and safety components and human rights. This information is available to all individuals working with the consumer

• Transportation: Each facility is equipped with vehicles for business use, which may include; community activities, medial appointments, family visits and transportation to and from work sites.

• Behavioral interventions

Behavioral interventions develop and implemented for participants in the Spurwink Programs are specifically tailored to meet consumer needs. Behavioral support plans conform to and abide by RI statue entitled "Rights of Personal with Developmental Disabilities", RI Gen. Laws 40.1-26-1 et seq. Accordingly in utilization of such plans the dignity, health, and safety of each individual will be secured and fostered.

• Discharge / Transitional Planning

Discharges may occur when:

a. An individual, in conjunction with the Department, determine services to meet individual needs can more appropriately be provided in another setting (i.e. hospitalization, family setting, living without services)

b. The individual’s guardian determine services to meet individual needs can be more appropriately provided in another setting.

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The mission of Spurwink|RI is to assist children, adults with disabilities,
and their families in pursuing social, educational, vocational
and other life enhancing opportunities.