Facilities that are considering accepting people with bleeding disorders (BD) may need help thinking creatively about the ways in which they can safely and comfortably accommodate them.

This section provides responses to concerns that may be raised by behavioral health treatment facilities, such as:

• Medical complexity

• Patient competency to self-infuse

• Overseeing infusions

• Identifying someone to administer infusion

• Where the person will infuse

• Paying for BD medication

• Access to BD medication

• Storing the BD medication

• Use of medications with potential impacts on coagulation

• Use of crisis intervention techniques

• Use of electroconvulsive therapy

• Injury in the facility

• Misuse of medication

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