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Brenda Epperly & Associates LLC
Medical and Mental Healthcare Consulting
Changing the way we provide healthcare today
Expert Guidance
Brenda has over 35 years of experience working in dynamic healthcare organizations while specializing in medical and mental health services in a variety of settings.
Our Services
How We Can Help You?
Projects
New Ideas In Action
After working in this field for the over 35 years, I know what it means to provide exceptional service and deliver outstanding results. I enjoy helping my clients achieve the goals they seek and infuse those goals with best practices while adhering to national standards. Here are three of our recent projects. Please contact us for more information.
This one of a kind project will provide 72 beds for patients with behavioral health treatment needs. We worked with the clients to determine their goals, define their program services, evaluate their current challenges and catch their vision for a therapeutic behavioral health unit. This resulted in a beautiful and efficient design that provides several levels of care and multiple options for treatment activities.
Sonoma County Adult Behavioral Health Unit
Los Angeles, one of the largest county jails in the US, was planning to build nearly 3000 medical and mental health beds to house and provide these necessary services to the patient population. From 2014 to 2017 we worked directly with medical and behavioral health staff to define their population, envision future services, define necessary staff and plan for therapeutic spaces to provide multiple levels of secure quality care.
Los Angeles County Consolidated Treatment Facility
Idaho DOC was involved in a class action lawsuit claiming lack of behavioral health and medical care in their main facility. BEA was the Court-Appointed Mental Health Expert hired to assess all aspects of the behavioral health program, transgender care and addiction services.
Idaho DOC Mental Health Care
Brenda is a former Health Care Director for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). For four plus years Brenda worked with the court-appointed Federal Receiver who led the healthcare improvement efforts aimed at correcting the deficiencies that led to class action litigation and receivership. Prior to that she was the Director of Mental Health for the statewide mental health program.
She brings experience in all aspects of medical and mental health services in several settings, eg. at home, out-patient, hospital, voluntary community and lock-up environments. Brenda has worked at county, state and private community facilities.
Brenda has a Master's degree in Nursing Administration and is familiar with national and state requirements and standards for mental health care in many different settings. She is a certified Mental Health Registered Nurse.
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Brenda spends her free time raising service dogs to provide support to adults, children and veterans with disabilities and facility dogs to professionals working in healthcare, criminal justice and educational settings.
Brenda Epperly RN.MSN
CEO and President
What We Do
Brenda Epperly & Associates provides medical and mental healthcare expertise to community mental health, state hospitals and detention agencies. We often work in concert with architects, construction designers and planners to ensure medial and behavioral health spaces are designed for efficiency and are therapeutic in design and function. Our number 1 focus is to get the right people to the table to create real-time ideas for new projects. BE&A has a proven track record in system-wide change management, new technologies, program master planning, design projects and medical and mental health care operations. BE&A excels in problem identification to assist clients to identify risks of litigation, establish priorities, and recommend and plan for the best, most cost effective solutions.
