TRADITIONS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH is the largest provider of psychiatric services to adult populations in institutional and community-based programs in California.

We have developed an unique multidisciplinary approach that considers the physical, psychiatric, psychosocial, cultural and medical needs of our adult and older adult patients in providing our mental health services.

We provide services to the seriously and persistently mentally ill and have openings in the San Francisco/Bay area, San Bernardino, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Due to the tremendous success of our company, this year we have added 9 full-time psychiatrists just in the San Francisco Bay Area alone and two psychiatrists in Los Angeles. Overall we plan to add 13 more fulltime psychiatrists in California bringing us to a total of 102 full- and part-time psychiatrists.

Our packages vary from a minimum of $190,000 per year inclusive of benefits, to well over $275,000, for the industrious physician. Our generous benefit package includes almost 7 weeks paid time off per year. Outstanding rural community additional supplements are also available.

If you are creative and think outside the box, if you value diversity and cultural competency, if you like innovative programs that are patient driven, using a rehabilitative, rather than an illness model, if you want more time to work with patients, to get the best results, then TBH is the company for you.

New positions for Psychiatrists are available on the “Employment” page. Check often as opportunities arise throughout the year. Current jobs are available in the following areas:

1. Northern California
   1. San Francisco Bay Area: 6 positions.
   2. Central California: 1 position.
2. Southern California
   1. Los Angeles: 1 position.
   2. Orange County:1 position.
   3. San Bernardino County: 1/2 position.
   4. San Diego: 1.5 positions.
3. Coverage and Call

DOCTORS START at ST. HELELA HOSPITAL August 9th, 2008 We at TBH are proud of our partnership with St. Helena Hospital, part of Adventist Health, one of our newest relationships. Drs. Jon Jackson and Avi Zeff started there late last year. The following is an evaluation of their work, written by Guy C. Qvistgaard, MS, MFT, Senior Vice President, Operations.

"Dear Gary,

Now that we have passed the first trimester of TBH's involvement at St. Helena Hospital, I wanted to give you my overall impressions of how it's working out. Superb! Wonderful! Outstanding!

I anticipated the usual start-up challenges and have found them to be well within expectations. Communication with everyone at TBH is open, timely and constructive. The volume goals we discussed were achieved within weeks, surpassing our initially projected time lines. The best example of TBH's excellent work that I can give is that in November and December of 2007 our ADC was between 9 and 10 patients per day in a 21 bed unit. This was frustrating for us given that we were turning patients away due to lack of physician capacity and support. Drs. Jackson and Zeff joined out team in mid-January and we experienced an immediate jump in census and finished January at 13 ADC. Once in full swing our ADCs for February and March ended at approximately 18 patients per day. St. Helena Hospital had not seen this census for many years with even more physicians on staff!

Not only are we delighted with the census increase but have received numerous anecdotal reports that there has been an enhancement in the quality of care that our patients are receiving. I attribute this to something you and I discussed early in our discussions - the doctors are physically present on the unit throughout the entire day and can thus answer questions in "real-time" and be actively involved in treatment planning and implementation.

Drs. Jackson and Zeff have brought quality, efficiency and collegiality to our institution and we are moving in the direction of providing enhanced patient care and staff support at St. Helena Hospital.

Thank you and your group for working with us." - Guy C. Qvistgaard, MS, MFT

CHIEF HIRED for CCRMC June 9th, 2007 It is with great pleasure that I announce the hiring of Charles Saldanha MD as our new Chief of Inpatient & Crisis Stabilization at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC).

Now that John George Pavilion Medical Staff is stable with the additions of Mark Chong DO (Chief), Chris Sue MD, Edward Lim MD, David Tomasini MD, John Fenton MD and Craig Beaty MD (plus our 10 weekend call doctors), TBH has now turned its attention to CCRMC.

Dr. Saldanha will report directly to the Medical Director, Akin Kolade MD, and will work to create a center of psychiatric excellence. As a Yale Fellow, UCSF residency graduate, a Harvard and Duke graduate with significant Inpatient and PES background: Dr. Saldanha is uniquely qualified to lead this TBH / CCRMC partnership.

We commence one week from today and as the enclosed schedule suggests, we have just 11 remaining shifts to fill in the first two weeks to be off to a 100% shift coverage start. 10 Full time psychiatrists will be necessary to staff the inpatient and crisis stabilization unit with around the clock physician coverage 365 days per year.

The total Medical Staff of full time MD employees at TBH will be 60 strong by mid-summer.

Millionaire's Tax Funds New Mental Health Service Programs
February 23, 2007

San Jose Business Journal article describes the Mental Health Services Act, and how companies such as Telecare Corporation and Traditions Behavioral Health are improving mental health services in California.

“I started TBH 11 years ago to provide an environment for psychiatrists and psychologists to see patients the way they were trained. I wanted to create a practice environment focused on outcome, not on time-restricted doctor visits. I wanted to provide a haven from managed care, third party billing, and the administrative challenges that confront doctors. I wanted to allow doctors to do what they do best: take care of patients, who are after all the consumers of our services." - Gary Hayes, PhD, President