Since 1996, Traditions Behavioral Health partners with its clients and physicians to provide multi-state high-quality outsourced psychiatric medical staff to care for the seriously and persistently mentally ill.
In 1996, Gary A. Hayes, Ph.D founded TBH to provide reliable access to quality psychiatric care by building partnerships with clients, patients and psychiatrists. We call our approach partnership-focused psychiatry.
Today, the licensed physicians and nurse practitioners employed by Traditions Behavioral Health are one of the largest single groups providing psychiatric services to adults and children struggling with serious and persistent mental illness.
Welcome to our community of more than 300 psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners caring for the seriously and persistently mentally ill. If you are looking for a place to practice free of bureaucracy, third party billing and the administrative challenges confronting doctors we are glad you found us.
Our psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners choose to build their careers with TBH because we offer you unprecedented flexibility to choose where you practice, your hours and how you practice while providing you excellent income opportunities and benefits.
“They help make going to work a pleasure. I love that they help resolve any issues at our job site, they are caring and value you as a person, a doctor and a team member. I feel I can reach…
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“Working with Dr. Gary Hayes and the TBH crew has been an exceptional experience from the outset. I recently completed subspecialty training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, spending many weekends providing coverage at Northern California sites along the way. After…
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“Thank you so much for coordinating my site visits. I truly had a fantastic time. You should be insanely proud as you have managed to develop a company where physicians are not only satisfied they are deliriously happy with their…
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“TBH is providing a “top—notch” professional service for our patients. We asked them to take over our inpatient psychiatric services with a month’s notice. Gary and the team recruited very highly qualified psychiatrists at a moment’s notice and they improved…
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“TBH has supplied us with three full—time psychiatrists placed in long—term positions and we are asking for more. The TBH doctors are excellent psychiatrists and we are very happy with them. I feel TBH provides excellent services.”
“We could not be more pleased with our relationship with TBH. We started contracting with them for three MDs for our ACT programs. We were so pleased with the relationship that we requested that they fill thirteen additional positions for…
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“For nearly a decade now TBH has provided medical staff for this Crestwood campus. We are very pleased with their services. The quality of the medical staff, the consistency of the physicians, the accuracy of the documentation, and the compassion…
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“TBH has placed seven psychiatrists here at Humboldt County in Eureka. We are a rural community environment and historically we have had significant challenges in recruiting psychiatrists. TBH has not only done a superb job in recruiting, their retention of…
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“Gary, I want to extend my gratitude and comment on the process so far. I asked you to come in and present a proposal to senior staff to take over our contract for Crisis stabilization and inpatient psychiatry. Your proposal…
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“TBH was awarded the contract for the psychiatric services in the last week of January at John George Pavilion with a start date of February 1. “An interim plan was set in place immediately and the transition was very smooth.…
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“TBH has done an excellent job of providing Telecare with capable psychiatrists. They are skilled at developing a resource pool of candidates and pre—screening doctors to match our requirements. In developing a partnership with TBH, we have been better able…
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“TBH psychiatrists are clearly very pleased to be associated with TBH. They are a part of a community of other psychiatrists of quality. TBH recruits highly qualified psychiatrists into programs that appreciate that quality. As a result psychiatrists are almost…
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“TBH has provided us with professional, competent psychiatrists for over 3 years now. Gary Hayes continues to listen to the needs of our community and our hospital. We are fortunate to have his adept guidance in a sometimes difficult area.…
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“Choosing to work with TBH is one of the best decisions I’ve made. TBH returns the loyalty of his physicians like no other employer I know of. I completed my training in 1985 and have worked in several settings including…
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“My past 15 years at TBH have been the most rewarding and fulfilling in my 45 year career in psychiatry. My work at TBH has challenged my intellect, expanded my knowledge, and enhanced my enjoyment of my profession. My personal…
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“I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I have been sent flowers. I’m happy to report that one of those occasions was my first day working for TBH. I believe that it is this personal…
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“I am particularly impressed at the way the company manages to maintain individual relations with their doctors. TBH has an ability to understand the needs of each individual doctor and to tailor-fit programs that best fulfill the mutual needs of…
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“Fortune smiled when I contacted TBH. Trying to coordinate my practice commitments at home with the desire to do acute care work on a regular but limited basis had been difficult. TBH embraced the challenge and we have an arrangement…
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In the midst of a national shortage of psychiatrists, there are few, if any, organizations like Traditions Behavioral Health that have the capability of meeting this demand with high-quality, employed psychiatrists. Our service includes:
