Beacon Specialized Living provides compassionate care to individuals with intellectual and mental health disabilities. By successfully supporting the self-directed goals of those we serve and applying industry best practices we are improving their quality of care while elevating their life satisfaction and optimizing their independent living skills. Beacon is the leading community partner in the markets we serve.
High Quality, Gentle, Compassionate Care
Beacon Specialized Living provides compassionate care to individuals with intellectual and mental health disabilities. By successfully supporting the self-directed goals of those we serve and applying industry best practices we are improving their quality of care while elevating their life satisfaction and optimizing their independent living skills. Beacon is the leading community partner in the markets we serve.
What Goes Into Our Compassionate Care?
We believe that everyone — regardless of their abilities — deserves to be a full member of their community.
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Integrity
Act honestly, speak the truth and deliver on promises.
C
Compassion
Be compassionate, caring and gentle in all that we do.
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Advocacy
Encourage and invest in new ideas that elevate equality and community.
R
Respect
Encourage a variety of thoughts that reflect the diversity of the communities, customers and workforce we serve.
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Excellence
Consistently deliver high quality services that have a positive impact.
Find Beacon Services Near You
We offer our services across 8 states with multiple homes and living arrangements available to fit your needs.
Measuring Success
Our Person Centered
Approach to Care
Embracing best practices and evidence-based methods, we are committed to providing respectful, compassionate care tailored to each individual’s needs and not their diagnosis, and helping every individual reach their highest level of independence.
Breaking the Crisis Cycle
Beacon fills the most critical — and most overlooked — gap in the behavioral health continuum.
Most individuals with complex IDD and behavioral health needs follow a costly cycle: a triggering event sends them to acute care, they stabilize, get discharged — and 21% are readmitted within 90 days. Traditional providers weren’t built to absorb this population.
Beacon fills that gap. Purpose-built for the highest-acuity discharges other providers can’t support, Beacon reduces readmission risk, relieves inpatient capacity, and delivers measurable cost savings to payers and families.
What Success Looks Like
By addressing critical social determinants of health with compassionate and attentive clinical and medical care, Beacon significantly improves health outcomes and nearly eliminates hospitalization.
Redefining “Care Team”
The ONE BEACON Clinical Advantage
Navigating high acuity behaviors, chronic illness, and mental health disabilities requires effective “care team” coordination, communication and collaboration.
Our care teams consist of direct support professionals, licensed clinicians, social workers, behavioral therapists and nurses that work together to manage the “whole person.” We coordinate directly with primary and specialty care providers to ensure seamless community care.
Quality and safety is accomplished by having an integrated and single-source health management enterprise to monitor treatment plans, track goals and gaps, trend impact and ensure accountability, quality and continuity of care.
Beacon is the first national provider to partner with the National Association of Direct Service Professionals (NADSP). Beacon transforms “jobs” into “careers” and we require and invest in the national certification of all staff, ensuring each person served is supported by a credentialed professional, not just a caregiver.
We’re the first in the industry to provide a dedicated lifeline for frontline staff. StarTeam is our internal call center exclusively dedicated to support in-home staff with on-the-spot clinical questions, policies, training, systems support or help managing an escalated situation. Expert guidance is just a click away.
Beacon Mental Health Services Change Lives
A Letter From Our CEO
Since 1964, Beacon Specialized Living has delivered compassionate care to individuals with developmental disabilities, autism, mental illness and/or severe chronic conditions. Beacon creates new models of care that encompass safe housing, healthy food and affordable transportation, and we prioritize “connectedness” with peers, caregivers, and local communities. These needs are essential to achieving meaningful improvements in function, independence and well-being. Through community-based coordinators with local expertise, we support individuals in person, gaining their trust and developing personalized goals to address their physical, mental health and social needs.
We achieve sustainable outcomes by embracing or developing best practices for our specialized services. We apply evidence-based care via a network of therapists, clinicians and nurses, effectively supporting the “whole person” and helping them reach their highest level of independence possible. We invest significantly more in people and infrastructure than any other provider, and demonstrate that our community-based services are far more humane and effective in achieving sustainable improvements in behaviors, health outcomes and quality of life.
Our success is made possible by a village of stakeholders aligned around common goals. I’m thankful for our entire team of staff, community partners and guardians. Every day, we work hard to be the preferred provider of the individuals we serve, their families, community agencies and payors throughout our service area. As we’re winning new contracts and expanding our line of specialized services and capabilities, we’re quickly becoming one of the largest, leading national providers of behavioral health services. I’m proud that Beacon is a good community partner, and that our team deeply cares for so many individuals who were previously misunderstood and avoided.
In good health,
Darren W. Hodgdon
CEO
