LOCUS P.A.S. and C&A LOCUS Software

2808 State Street
Erie, PA 16508

Phone: (814) 456-2457
Fax: (814) 456-7679

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For more information about the LOCUS and CALOCUS instruments,
see the LOCUS and CALOCUS Overview page

What are LOCUS and CALOCUS?

LOCUS^© and CALOCUS^© are clinical tools that evaluate and determine level of care placements for psychiatric and addiction services for both adult and child/adolescent populations. They are comprehensive utilization management systems, which are designed to generate various managerial reports, aggregate patient data, track patients, and promote accurate scoring and ease of use.

These tools are designed for use by clinicians and managed care organizations alike. Subsequently, they promote increased communication between providers and payers. When implemented, LOCUS^© and CALOCUS^© effectively benefit individuals with mental health and substance abuse issues by quickly and accurately assessing their needs without removing clinical judgement.

The LOCUS^© and CALOCUS^© instruments were developed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP). Deerfield offers enhanced computerized versions of these tools, enabling the clinician to perform an assessment quickly and accurately.

Deerfield Behavioral Health, Inc., is the exclusive provider of software for the LOCUS^© and CALOCUS^© clinical assessment tools.

Deerfield offers two versions of our LOCUS P.A.S.^© and C&A LOCUS^© software:
Reporter Website and Service Manager

Reporter Website

The Reporter Website is our pay-per-evaluation site. You simply pay a small fee for each evaluation you need to perform. This website allows you to perform LOCUS^© and CALOCUS^© evaluations quickly and accurately. You simply enter the appropriate information about the client. The website handles the computations for you, and produces a recommended level of care, along with a report that can be printed and added to the client's records.

The Reporter Website is hosted by Deerfield. It does not collect any protected health information about your clients, does not provide long-term storage of the evaluations, and is not designed for data aggregation. These features, and many more, are available in our other product, Service Manager (see below).

To access the Reporter Website, visit LOCUS Online.

Service Manager

When you're ready to step up to the next level of power and ease of use, you can purchase Deerfield's Service Manager software. Service Manager goes beyond the Reporter Website... it is a powerful database product that you install on your own organization's computer network. Service Manager has the ability store client demographic data, and can retrieve, aggregate and report on all of the data collected during each LOCUS^© and CALOCUS^© evaluation. Through this patient tracking system, a clinical picture of the client's progress can be observed. You can also generate organization-wide reports, giving you details on your entire client population. And with our new Service Planner add-on module, you can take the information you entered into an evaluation and use it to easily develop a service plan for the client. Best of all, Service Manager is licensed without any per-evaluation fees!

Conducting an evaluation in Service Manager is just as quick and easy as it is on our Reporter Website. However, after completing an evaluation, Service Manager stores the results in the system database. This information can be retrieved at a later date and used to create Status and History Reports for each patient. Information can also be retrieved and used for program reporting purposes. A number of reports showing summaries of your entire patient population can be created. Service Manager reports can be generated for any period of time, and include such features as status views, trends and color graphs.

Service Manager also has the capability of tracking patient progress and group patient data, and creating patient reports and network programs within a system. The group data feature allows an organization to review patient data according to the level of care, diagnosis by level of care, and the level of care change Variance Report. The Pending Inactivation Report is automatically displayed on the screen when the clinician activates the system. This report informs the clinician of any patients due for an evaluation or that need discharged from the system.

Service Manager features Security Access for the purpose of confidentiality of patient data. There are multiple security access levels that can fine-tuned for each user. This ensures that only the required patient information will be displayed. In addition, the system can be configured so that multiple facilities can interact with the same database, but they will not be able to see patient information from other facilities. This is ideal for larger entities, where you need the ability to see all patient data, but lower-level or third-party users must not have access to all of the records.

Service Manager is an excellent evaluation tool which represents a broad concensus of both clinicians and resource managers. This software product, with its many useful features, effectively helps to guide level of care decisions and resource utilization decisions.

Service Manager can be configured for access via our custom Client software, or through a web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. You can also access the system through both methods at the same time.

To see an on-line demonstration of the web-enabled Service Manager system, visit LOCUS Online.