What are the benefits of CMBHS to Texas mental health and substance abuse treatment clients?
• With CMBHS a person seeking services will experience more streamlined intake, admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment plan development, treatment and discharge processes through the following: • A reduction in the amount time it takes staff to perform administrative tasks and gather basic client information during the intake and admission process. • An elimination of the need to conduct separate screening interviews, as CMBHS uses a single screening process that assesses a person’s need for MH and/or SA treatment. • A creation of a single client record that can be shared between DSHS-funded MH services providers and SA service providers. The ability to share information ensures access to important treatment history and eliminates the need to create and maintain multiple client records that are often difficult to access between providers. • Because clinicians that use CMBHS will have access to previous admissions and treatment, they can know what types of treatment have been most
