Behavioral Health
River Valley Health & Dental is committed to providing comprehensive and integrated primary care to the community we serve. Our Behavioral Health and Social Services departments are essential to our mission and an asset that allows us to stand apart from many other primary care facilities. Our team strives to ensure that each patient is treated with compassion and respect while receiving support to work towards their individual goals.
Behavioral Health Team
Behavioral Health Coordinator (BHC)
Works side-by-side with primary care providers to integrate behavioral health into the medical visit by assessing mental health needs and coordinating psychiatry and therapy referrals. Can provide walk-in visits for acute needs or a crisis.
Patient Navigator
Works to minimize patient barriers to routine healthcare by helping them access River Valley Health & Dental resources. Coordinating referrals for community services, finding options for basic living needs, and collaborating with North Penn Legal Services to assist patients with legal needs.
Community Navigator
A Community Navigator is a member of the Behavioral Health and Social Services team who assesses barriers that may interfere with or prevent patients from receiving quality care. These barriers may include insurance or lack thereof, difficulty paying rent and utility, transportation, childcare, and more. The community navigator will provide patients with community resources to assist. The Community Navigator acts as a liaison with several agencies in the community.
Susan King, LCSW
Behavioral Health Coordinator (BHC)
Robin Bingham
Patient Navigator
Maryam Ali, BS
Community Navigator
If you are in crisis or have a mental health emergency that cannot wait until you are able to be seen at River Valley Health & Dental, please dial 911.
OR
Call Crisis Intervention:
Lycoming-Clinton County Crisis:
National Suicide Prevention Hotline:
24-7 | 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)
Tele-Psych For Behavioral Health
River Valley Health & Dental is pleased to offer access to child, adolescent, and adult telepsychiatry medication management services for individuals who are actively enrolled in primary care at our Center. This specialty service is paid for by your Medical Assistance plan and can be accessed by talking with your primary care provider about your current mental health needs.
Tele-psychiatry offers diagnostic evaluations and medication management to our patients and collaborates with primary care providers to offer whole-person care.
Felicia Boyers
Telepsych Assistant
“The goal of our telemedicine program for psychiatry is simple: Provide our patients access to specialty psychiatric care while also affording them
the privilege of shared access to their physical and mental health records by medical and psychiatric providers,” explains Sue King, licensed clinical social worker at River Valley Health & Dental.
River Valley Health & Dental contracted with InSight + Regroup, a telepsychiatry technology and services vendor, to provide psychiatric specialty care. River Valley Health & Dental has a registered Medical Assistant designated to work with the psychiatry providers to complete rooming, scheduling, securing consents and releases of information, and to be a conduit for communication between the psychiatrist and the patient’s medical provider in the office.