Frequently Asked Questions

• The Lindner Center of HOPE, a private, non-profit facility, will be the leading mental health care diagnostic and treatment center in the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana region.
• We have physicians of national standing and we will be national center of excellence.
  
• We will serve adolescents, adults, and senior adults who need mental health and substance abuse care.
• Additionally, the Center of HOPE will be a primary national resource for diagnosis and treatment of especially complex mental health problems.
• The approaches to wellness will be truly effective and innovative, augmented by advanced clinical research, developed by some of the best minds in the field of Psychiatry and Psychology, with support from the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, the Lindner Family Foundation, and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
• Care will integrate mental, physical and spiritual needs, and will be interdisciplinary.
• The Lindner Center of HOPE is located on 36 acres in a secluded, peaceful setting in Mason, Ohio. The hospital features 64 beds and will open in August 2008.

• President and CEO Paul E. Keck, Jr. M.D., is a national leader in bipolar disorder and psychopharmacology. He is recruiting a professional staff of the top clinicians and clinician-scientists in the country.
• Already on the team are:
  • Brian Owens, RNC, LPCC, BSN, MA, Chief Operating Officer
  • John Kennedy, M.D., M.H.A., Chief Medical Officer
  • John Hawkins, M.D., Chief of Psychiatric Services and Deputy Director of the Research Division 
  • Robin Arthur, Psy.D., Chief of Psychology Services
  • Lynn Adams, M.S., B.S.N., R.N., Chief Nursing Officer
  • Susan McElroy, M.D., Chief Research Officer
• The facility will be staffed by forward-thinking practitioners and researchers, many of whom are the national experts in their specialty areas as clinicians, scholars, and educators.
• The Center will operate in a research and teaching partnership with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, one of the nation’s most respected psychiatry departments.

• Millions of Americans are receiving treatment for mental health or substance-use conditions and illnesses with widely varying success. These conditions are the #1 public health problem in the United States.
• Access to care makes a difference and the level of unmet needs remains dangerously high. Mental Health America found statistically significant associations between accessibility and better depression status and lower suicide rates. Among the “most depressed” states in the nation were Ohio and Kentucky. Depression status composite scores landed Ohio at 43 and Kentucky at 49, with the scale starting at most healthy states and building up to the least healthy.

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  How is the Lindner Center of HOPE creating something unique?
• One way is by utilizing the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report, Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series (2006). This report was written by the foremost experts in the behavioral health field and describes a multifaceted and comprehensive strategy to implement a quality framework for delivering the best possible behavioral health care. 
• Additionally, the Lindner Center of HOPE is modeling a new system of care. The traditional system of mental health care is very hospital/doctor-centered. Patients in this old system experience long waiting lists, a lack of integration, slow uptake of research advances and inflexible and limited services. The Lindner Center of HOPE’s system of care promises to be patient- and family-centered; responsive and accessible; integrated across age, diagnosis and treatment setting; a contributor to and rapid adopter of research advances, and a provider of individualized care.

• The Lindner Center of HOPE will offer both short-term, hospital-based inpatient services as well as longer-term, private, voluntary live-in-services.
• Seamless outpatient services, including psychiatric evaluation, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, education, rehabilitation, and expert consultations.