ResCare Premier announces the availability of three new informational videos

San Marcos, Texas, July 22, 2004 – ResCare Premier, a leading national provider of programs and services for persons with acquired brain injury, today announces the release of three informational videos in DVD format or streaming on demand from the web at www.rescarepremier.com/services.html. These videos highlight ResCare Premier’s Behavior Stabilization services offered at the Tangram Behavioral Program, Complex Medical services provided by Skilled Care Alternatives, and Pediatric Programs offered at the Texas Hill Country School.

“ResCare Premier and its sister companies, Skilled Care Alternatives and the Texas Hill Country School, aggressively embrace a multi-media approach to providing information to our customers and family members,” states Ms. Cathy Breneman, Director of Business Development, “Video, both on DVD and streaming from the web, is the next best thing to a live tour. It allows our customers and family members to see our people and programs and it gives them some insight into our caring, commitment, compassion, and capability.”

ResCare Premier’s Tangram Behavioral Program (“TBP”) has been North America’s leading provider of behavioral stabilization services for over twenty years. The Tangram Behavioral Program offers emergency placement and transport, residential rehabilitation, transitional services, and long-term supported living. According to A.B. Green, Senior Program Director at ResCare Premier’s TBP, “Frequently participants who are referred to our program are in crisis. They have failed in other programs, been admitted to a locked psychiatric facility, or been incarcerated. The video helps to explain that ResCare Premier’s TBP does not have locked units, that we do not use restraints, and that we do not have a “padded room”, but instead, we have highly individualized treatment programs that help participants develop positive, adaptive behaviors.”

“Many times family members are not aware that long-term care for their loved ones is available in the house just down the street,” shares Krista Davis, Executive Director of Skilled Care Alternatives, which has houses in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Downers Grove, Illinois, and soon in Lockhart, Texas. “Medically complex participants don’t necessarily have to be cared for in institutions and our video gives us a great way to show families what is possible.”



According to Michael Langford, Dean of Students at the Texas Hill Country School, “We have been using video since we first opened our doors in September of 2000. Many times, we deal with families with young children in crisis who have to make a quick decision – admit their child to the Texas Hill Country School or to a psychiatric facility. This is never an easy decision and where time is of the essence, our video can be a stand-in for a pre-admission tour of our school.”

Beth Hearne, Director of Admissions notes, “We send these DVDs to families and case managers when they inquire about our programs. They are a wonderful way to illustrate the services we provide.”

ResCare Premier offers a full continuum of rehabilitation services including Behavioral Stabilization, Residential Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Day Treatment, Outpatient Services and various long-term supported living environments. ResCare Premier is an in-network provider for many national and regional health care insurance companies, Workers’ Compensation insurers, numerous state and county programs, private payments, and on a limited basis, will enter into Security and Assignment of Proceeds Agreements.

Since opening its doors, ResCare Premier has expanded and developed programs to meet the diverse needs of individuals with acquired brain injury. As a unique group of interrelated treatment facilities, residential communities, and specialty programs located across the United States and Canada, we offer a full continuum of rehabilitation and residential services designed to meet treatment needs “from the door of the hospital to the door of the home – or any door that opens opportunity for our participants.” sm

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Admission Information or to request a DVD: 800.28.BRAIN (800.282.7246)
Email: Admissions@ResCarePremier.com

Local Contact:

A.B. Green
Senior Program Director
ResCare Premier Tangram Behavioral Program
Phone: 830.372.4774

Michael Langford
Dean of Students
Texas Hill Country School
Phone: 512.392.8811

Krista Davis
Executive Director
Skilled Care Alternatives
Phone: 905.468.0532

Cathy Breneman
Director of Business Development
ResCare Premier
Phone: 734.944.1181