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Thank you Paul. Healing and empowering are the foundation of San Antonio Behavioral Health Hospital’s CEO’s mission. Here is my interview with her from earlier this week. Aelia McKinney, you are the chief executive officer of San Antonio Behavioral Health Care Hospital. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you for having me. I’m looking forward for our audience to get to know you a little bit better because you’re very passionate about your. Position and you are emphasizing elevate empower and heal as CEO of San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital. Why is that? Yeah, thank you for asking um so this is actually my second career and when I made the decision to switch into behavioral health one of the things that was really important to me and a promise that I made to myself was to basically make sure that I. Always put the patient first so when I was given the opportunity and the privilege to be the CEO of San Antonio Behavioral Health Care Hospital, it was really important to me to keep that promise to myself and to put the patient first and so when I look at what that means it means really making sure that we’re individualizing their care, you know, we all may have issues we all may have problems and situational stressors but. We’re not gonna treat those the same and so taking a kind of uh one size fits all approach to treatment was something that I really wanted to uh change and so that’s where elevate comes in right and so to elevate means to really uplift to bring something to a completely different standard when you look at empower empower means to help give someone a level of confidence so they can take action steps and so I wanted to make sure that we were empowering our patients. Clients but also empowering each other to be the best we could possibly be and then when you talk about heal healing starts from the inside out and so really doing our part to focus on what are the things that we need to heal as mental health professionals so we can give our best to our patients — and in turn encourage them to heal as well and you
— really do because you guys hosted your elevate and educate back to school fair. What was that like? Oh man, um, powerful impactful is is what I could, I could say about it, um. It was a vision that I’ve had for a very long time and supporting the community is um a goal of ours at San Antonio Behavioral Health Care Hospital um I grew up in San Antonio, Texas this is my community. I grew up on the east side and because of a lot of the opportunities that I was given, I feel like I was able to be in certain positions and to whom much is given, much is required. So the reason this event was so impactful is because we were able to host. Over 1200 people we gave over 700 backpacks we had um over 100 families sign up for insurance and we partnered with TechSoc and was able to give 50 free car seats and have them secured safely for families. So when you talk about impact, that’s community impact that’s community uplifting and so our hope is that other organizations follow suit some already have um and we’ll really start. To give back to the community because if we help to heal the community we help to heal each other and so it’s not just better together it’s um unstoppable together. It sounds like it because you also partnered with Key Charter. What does that collaboration look like? Um, it’s a very innovative approach to treatment as I spoke about healing and healing the whole person when you look at people you’re looking at um the entire aspect of what they’re going through. And when we look at kids, a lot of kids, their biggest stressor is the school and so when you’re usually approaching inpatient care you’re not even touching that component that is a huge stressor for our children and so what we wanted to do is partner with Key Charter which is a a local charter school we are actually the first in San Antonio to be able to offer both inpatient and outpatient education while people and children are getting treated. And it allows them to really focus on their mental health treatment while also using the skills that they’re learning and integrating that into the school system so when they do discharge they’re set up for success and they can be more successful we would love to be a part of of people’s village. um, we believe it takes a village and we would love to be a part and so please contact us at San Antoniobehavioral.com and call us at 210-541-5300. Coming up later, we are checking out Spike Lee’s latest film starring none other than the great Denzel Washington. Do not miss the trailer for highest to lowest. Stay with us, y’all.
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