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.
I
Integrity
Act honestly, speak the truth and deliver on promises.
C
Compassion
Be compassionate, caring and gentle in all that we do.
A
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.
E
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
For more than 60 years, Beacon Specialized Living has been guided by one simple purpose: helping people live their best lives.
That means supporting people with complex behavioral health needs and intellectual and developmental disabilities to live with greater independence, build meaningful relationships, experience new opportunities, and be active members of their communities.
At Beacon, we believe great care begins by seeing each person as an individual. No one should be defined by a diagnosis. Every person we support has their own personality, interests, goals, challenges, and dreams. Our responsibility is to understand what matters to them and provide the personalized care and support that helps them become the best version of themselves.
As Beacon has grown, we have worked hard to preserve what matters most about community-based care. We have brought together strong local providers with deep roots in their communities and surrounded them with the clinical expertise, technology, training, quality resources, and operational support of a national organization. We call that National Strength with Local Care.
Because no matter how large Beacon becomes, care will always be local. It happens in a home, around a dinner table, at a doctor’s appointment, at work or a day program, and out in the community. Most importantly, it happens through relationships between people.
Those relationships are grounded in our ICARE Values: Integrity, Compassion, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence. They guide how we care for the individuals we support, how we partner with families and communities, and how we treat one another.
Whether you are considering Beacon for yourself or someone you love, exploring a career with us, looking to partner with our organization, or simply wanting to learn more about who we are, I welcome you to Beacon.
We are proud of how far we have come and excited about where we are going. But through all the growth and change, our purpose remains the same: helping people live healthier, more independent, and more fulfilling lives.
In good health,
Darren W. Hodgdon
Darren W. Hodgdon
CEO
