Clinical Team

The Clinical Team at Alta California Regional Center is composed of behavior specialists, clinical psychologists, a clinical pharmacologist, nurse, physicians, and a speech and language pathologist. The Clinical Team works very closely with the Intake, Early Intervention and Service Coordinator staff in all ten counties to ensure timely delivery of services. Clinical services provided by the Clinical Team include:

Bates Specialized Care for Medically Fragile Infants and Children - The Clinical Team provides direct medical and nursing consultation with development of health care plans and coordination with Community Care Licensing.

Behavior Services - ACRC behavior specialists provide consultation, training, and support to service coordinators, families and community programs. The behavioral specialists offer parent training classes for families interested in learning effective teaching at home.  In addition, behavior specialists serve as part of the clinical team to provide assessments for consumers to help determine their need for behavioral services.

Case Conferences - Nursing, medical, behavioral, psychological, and pharmacological case conferences are offered to the service coordinators, consumers, residential care providers, and parents to help sort-out complicated medical, behavioral, mental health, and medication issues.

Community Education - the Clinical Team collectively or individually, offers lectures on topics related to Regional Center services and/or the developmental disabilities. These presentations are given at conventions, in-service trainings held by the employers of caregivers, and medical school educational programs.

Consent for Care - By the Lanterman Act, Alta physicians provide medical consent for care for individual consumers who are non-conserved and are without involved family members. Appropriateness of care must be within standard health care practice parameters.  Consent is not be provided for controversial procedures, for example: abortion, sterilization, HIV testing, and Do Not Resuscitate orders.

Developmental Center Community Placement - The Clinical Team helps support community placement of consumers with coordination of necessary health care services.

Diagnostic - The Clinical Team provides medical, nursing, dental, and psychological assessments for determining a diagnosis, and providing treatment monitoring and health planning for individual consumers.  Clinic consultations are offered for cases involving Down Syndrome, neurodevelopmental disorders, genetic disorders, psychiatric disorders, autism and general health reviews.  Clinic consultations are offered in all 10 county offices.  The Clinical Team participates in dental oral assessments when dental grants are available.  Preventive health plans are monitored for IPP and IFSP health reviews.  Preceptorships are offered for nurses, doctors, and psychologists in training for special health needs of individuals with developmental disabilities.