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We are inviting our most loyal supporters to reflect back on 20 years. Please take a moment to answer the following questions:
1) What is the name of your company and the mission statement?
2) Where was your company 20 years ago?
3) What accomplishment is your company most proud of?
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Seven Counties Services, Inc.
Twenty years ago, Seven Counties Services, Inc. was entering its 13th year as the region’s primary provider of behavioral health care and developmental services. 1991 was a year of service growth for our company. We more than doubled the staff providing case management services to individuals with several mental illness and children with severe emotional disorders. We expanded outpatient addictions treatment services beyond the walls of the Jefferson County Alcohol and Drug Abuse center in downtown Louisville and into our outlying service centers, including those in the surrounding rural counties. In 1991, Seven Counties opened its Acute Child Psychiatric Service, still a cornerstone of our comprehensive services for children in crisis and their families. In Developmental Services, our staff helped 60 individuals make the transition from life in an institution to community living.
The organization was focused on demonstrating the quality of our work and was just beginning efforts to attain accreditation from JCAHO – now the Joint Commission. Those efforts came to fruition and Seven Counties has been a Joint Commission accredited provider since 1993. In 1991, we were a $27 million a year venture. This year, we expect our revenues to exceed $90 million for the first time in our history.
At Seven Counties, we are pleased that our accomplishments contribute to the overall health of our community and of the individuals and families we serve. All of our endeavors create positive outcomes - from high rates of hospital diversion in our Family and Children Services’ Division and our Crisis and Emergency Services to the attainment of age-appropriate developmental milestones for the children in our First Steps program; from jail diversion efforts that save more than $2 million a year in incarceration costs to successful recovery programs that help individuals with severe mental illnesses and alcohol and drug addictions achieve productive and joyful lives, everything we do instills hope and nurtures happiness in those we serve and saves public expenditures in more costly and less effective responses.
Our greatest pride, however, comes from knowing that despite the many challenges of the last two decades, not the least of which has been acquiring adequate resources to serve all in need, we have remained true to our mission as a community behavioral health and developmental services organization. Last year, Seven Counties served over 32,000 individuals in our region, many of whom came to us without the means to pay for the services they need. As the region’s safety net provider for individuals dealing with mental illness, developmental disabilities, addictions and abuse, the board of directors and employees of Seven Counties Services take great pride in our role of insuring that first-rate behavioral health care is available to all in our community.
JHSMHC
Twenty years ago, Jewish Hospital was a downtown Louisville hospital that had just purchased another hospital in Shelbyville, KY. Now we are a major regional health network called Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare that includes over 70 healthcare facilities, 1,412 licensed beds and 7,700 team members who are didcated to providing quality care to the residents of Kentucky and southern Indiana.
We are most proud of the many lives we have saved or provided a better quality of life to those who have served with our innovative, cuttind-edge procedures such as the whorld's first AbioCor totally implateable heart and the United States' first hand transplant.