The Oregon Behavioral Health Coordination Center (OBCC) works with providers and health care centers. We help find beds for pediatric and adult patients at acute and residential behavioral health and substance use disorder facilities in Oregon.

If you can’t place a patient in your region or through usual referral pathways, call us at 844-440-6222. We are available weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

What is the Oregon Behavioral Health Coordination Center?

The Oregon Behavioral Health Coordination Center (OBCC) is state-funded, OHSU operated, and collaborates with behavioral health care providers and community partners, including the Oregon Health Authority. The OBCC has three components: real-time census and capacity tracking; a coordination center to assist with behavioral health placements; and simulation modeling of Oregon’s adult behavioral health system.

The OBCC tracks and reports real-time capacity and census information for residential behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment facilities, medical centers, and inpatient psychiatric units.

Coordination Center

Through the coordination center, OBCC also helps find beds for pediatric and adult patients needing acute and residential behavioral health and substance use disorder facilities in Oregon.

If you cannot place a patient in your region or through usual referral pathways, call us at 844-440-6222. We are available weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

OBCC’s goals are to: 

• Improve equitable access to behavioral health care
• Reduce work for Oregon behavioral health practitioners
• Coordinate patient movement in a unified and efficient way

What to expect

• When you call OBCC, you will talk with a trained coordinator. We will ask for patient information relevant to the transfer and work with you to identify residential or inpatient services until the patient has been accepted to an open bed or waitlist.

We do not:

• Transfer patients
• Determine final placement
• Coordinate transportation
• Handle prior authorization

We use real-time data to find placement options. Our goal is to keep the patient close to their community and home.

How do I get access?

If you believe you should have access to the census data due to your role in placing clients/patients into residential treatment, please reach out to OBCC@ohsu.edu.