Miami, FL – (9/14/2020) – Armor Health, a leading provider of integrated correctional healthcare and behavioral health services, continues to make significant investments to its behavioral health programs. The company has added three preeminent correctional psychologists to its prominent team of healthcare providers. Dr. Kristina Disney has been hired to serve as Armor’s Regional Behavioral Health Director for Florida. Dr. Ashley Phelps will hold the same position overseeing Armor’s behavioral health services in Colorado, Utah, Illinois, South Dakota, & Maine. Dr. Rebecca Vauter is now Armor’s Regional Behavioral Health Director in Virginia.
“The hiring of Dr. Disney, Dr. Phelps, and Dr. Vauter, represents Armor’s continuing and unrivaled commitment to setting the standard of correctional healthcare services by making behavioral healthcare a foundational element of our integrated, systematic approach to caring for our patients” says Dr. Jimmy Fernandez, Armor’s Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. Disney has an extensive background in suicide assessment, violence risk assessment and de-escalation, and enhancing collaboration between patients and healthcare staff. . Her expertise includes conducting forensic and psychological assessments. She is certified in Correctional Mental Health (CCHP-MH) by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and is accomplished in training and mentoring mental health directors in correctional healthcare settings.
Dr. Phelps recently oversaw behavioral healthcare systems for 10,000-incarcerated patients across ten facilities. She has managed special population programming, including the Juvenile Substance Use Treatment Program, Juvenile Sexual Offender Treatment Program, Acute Behavioral Health Unit and has directed sexual offender treatment and evaluation programs. Dr. Phelps was also a member of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care’s task force charged with authoring a guide to preventing inmate suicide.
Dr. Vauter joins Armor after serving as the CEO/Director Central State Hospital 277 bed psychiatric hospital in Petersburg , Virginia that includes the state’s only maximum security Forensic Unit. She managed all areas of the hospital which served as a strategic business partner to the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Development. As Clinical Director at Eastern State Hospital Dr. Vauter led Psychology, Social Work, and Psychosocial Rehabilitation departments at the 302 bed psychiatric facility in Wiliamsburg, ,VA. Along with her comprehensive leadership background, Dr. Vauter is an experienced forensic evaluator and is a member of the statewide Forensic Evaluation Oversight Review Team
Armor’s commitment to difference-making behavioral healthcare is fueled by combining industry leading clinicians and the company’s proprietary digital asset, Insights Analytics tool to reach evidence-based outcomes.
“With the further investment Armor is making in its Behavioral Health programs we are excited to work with our Population Health Management team led by Alex Campo to drive Armor’s success in its use of meta data analysis to deliver superior outcomes for our patients.” says Dr. Fernandez.
About Armor Health
Armor Health is a leading provider of correctional healthcare services providing quality care to state and local correctional facilities across the country for more than 16 years. Every day, Armor provides evidenced based medical and behavioral health services utilizing our proprietary insights analytics, our expert clinicians and professionals and a laser focus on best in class interventions to deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right place to every patient we serve. For more information, please visit www.armorhealthcare.com.
