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    Behavioral health systems

    The operating architecture behind referrals, admissions, and growth.

    Solvhaus designs and implements the connected system behavioral health operators run on: intake and admissions, CRM and referral relationships, operational data, automation, and leadership reporting, with BedFlow, Afterflow, and Roll Call placed where they fit.

    Behavioral health operations software, designed as one system.

    Solvhaus architects and implements behavioral health operations software for treatment programs: admissions and intake workflow, referral CRM, census and authorization data, automation, and leadership reporting connected into one operating layer. Instead of buying five tools that never agree, you get a documented architecture your admissions, business-development, and executive teams can run daily.

    01The operational problem

    Growth stalls when the operation is a pile of tools.

    Most treatment operators do not have a demand problem first. They have a systems problem that looks like a demand problem. Referrals arrive in inboxes. Admissions live on a whiteboard. Authorizations live in a spreadsheet. Census is reconstructed every morning. BD activity lives in someone's phone. Every layer works in isolation, so every new opportunity adds strain instead of momentum.

    • Referral sources are remembered, not managed.
    • Speed-to-contact depends on who is on shift.
    • Authorization dates surprise the team.
    • Census is a number, not a decision tool.
    • Marketing spend cannot be tied to admits by source.
    • Adding a location copies the chaos.
    02The system

    One architecture, five connected layers.

    The layers below are designed together so intake, CRM, operational data, automation, and reporting read from the same records. Product tools are placed inside the layer they serve, they are not the architecture on their own.

    Behavioral health operating architecture

    Five connected layers: intake and admissions, CRM and referral relationships, operational data (census, authorization, alumni), leadership reporting, and the product tools that sit inside those layers.

    1. 01

      Intake & admissions

      Capture, first contact, VOB, clinical review, and placement, every stage owned.

      • Inbound forms and calls
      • Speed-to-contact rules
      • Eligibility and clinical fit
      • Bed allocation
      Designed and implemented per operator
    2. 02

      CRM & referral relationships

      Partner accounts, contacts, opportunities, and the admissions pipeline in one data model.

      • Referral partner records
      • Pipeline stages
      • Ownership and next actions
      • Lost-reason tracking
      Product tools
    3. 03

      Operational data

      Census, authorizations, alumni contact, and house operations kept current by the people doing the work.

      • Census and bed availability
      • Authorization dates and status
      • Alumni follow-up
      • Daily house operations
    4. 04

      Automation

      Routing, reminders, and refreshes on top of clean records, with a person on every decision.

      • Lead and referral routing
      • Stage-aging reminders
      • Report refresh
      • Governance and review
      Designed and implemented per operator
    5. 05

      Leadership reporting

      Pipeline, source, census, and follow-up views that read from the same records across locations.

      • Source to outcome
      • Stage aging and ownership
      • Census across programs
      • Weekly operating rhythm
      Designed and implemented per operator

    Every layer is designed per operator. Product tools are optional and are placed only where the architecture calls for them.

    03Run it yourself

    See where exceptions route in each operating model.

    Eight common exceptions, two models. In one, every edge ends at the founder. In the other, ownership rules on the record decide who acts.

    Where exceptions routeInteractive · your numbers

    Six roles arranged around a center node for the founder. Eight common exceptions are drawn as edges. In "founder as the system" every edge points to the center, so the founder handles 8 exception types. In "owners on the record" each exception routes to the role that owns it and the center carries none.

    AdmissionsBDUR / billingHouse managerAlumniLeadership8FOUNDER
    On the founder's phone
    8
    Every exception type routes to one person
    Roles with an owner rule
    0
    Ownership lives in memory

    Growth stalls at one person's memory. Adding a location doubles the edges into the center.

    Conceptual diagram, not activity data. It shows the shape of the two operating models: one where every exception is a text to the owner, and one where ownership rules on the record decide who acts.

    04What we build

    What we design and implement

    01

    Intake and admissions workflow

    Inquiry to placement as an owned sequence: capture, first contact, VOB and clinical review, bed allocation, and a recorded outcome.

    02

    CRM and referral-relationship architecture

    Partner accounts, contacts, opportunities, and pipeline stages modelled on how treatment BD and admissions actually work.

    03

    Operational data model

    Census, authorizations, alumni contact, and house operations defined once, owned by role, and kept current by the people doing the work.

    04

    Leadership reporting

    Source-to-outcome, stage aging, census across programs, and ownership, read from working records, not a Friday export.

    05

    Automation with review

    Routing, reminders, and refreshes on top of clean records. A person still owns every decision that touches a family.

    06

    Product placement

    BedFlow for referral, bed, and census operations. Afterflow for post-discharge. Roll Call for recovery housing. Used only where they fit the model.

    07

    Multi-location extension

    The same pipeline, census, and source views across programs, so leadership is not reconciling five versions of the truth.

    08

    Adoption and operating rhythm

    Documentation, training by role, and the weekly cadence that keeps the system honest after we leave the room.

    05Fit

    Built for operators, not for a generic healthcare pitch

    • Independent behavioral health and SUD treatment providers
    • Detox, residential, PHP, IOP, and sober-living operators
    • Multi-location groups adding programs without adding chaos
    • Admissions directors, COOs, executive directors, and founders
    • Business-development leaders who need a real pipeline
    06Questions

    Before you book a conversation.

    Next step

    If this is the pressure point, start here.

    A systems conversation is a working discussion with someone who owns admissions, operations, or growth. Bring the messy version.