Affiliations & Partnerships

At RiverValley Behavioral Health, we are dedicated to providing you with the best care possible. That is why we partner with national experts to ensure our services meet comprehensive, evidence-based standards, enhancing both quality and effectiveness in everything we do.

Why Our Partnerships Matter

Delivering high-quality behavioral health care requires more than clinical expertise — it requires accountability. Our accreditations and partnerships hold us to the highest national standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness. Every affiliation listed below reflects a commitment we have made to you: that our programs will be measured against the best in the country, and that we will never stop working to improve.

Accreditation & Compliance

Organizations like CARF, CMS, and the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services independently evaluate our programs to verify that we meet rigorous standards for safety, treatment quality, and organizational accountability.

Clinical Excellence

Affiliations with the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Center for Autism and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing connect our clinical team to leading research, training, and best practices that directly improve the care we provide.

Frameworks & Initiatives

We have adopted transformational frameworks like Zero Suicide and evidence-based certification standards like NARR to ensure our approach to care is grounded in the most current research and proven strategies.

Our Affiliations

LegitScripts Certified

At RiverValley Behavioral Health, our commitment to providing safe, transparent care is reinforced by our LegitScript verification. LegitScripts is a nationally recognized, third-party certification for healthcare providers, ensuring we operate…

Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

RiverValley Behavioral Health is CARF Accredited. Accreditation demonstrates that our organization has opened its service delivery and business processes to outside scrutiny to improve the quality of our programs. This…

Cleveland Clinic Children’s Center for Autism

RiverValley Behavioral Health is proud to be affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Center for Autism to provide behavioral intervention services focused on children affected by autism spectrum disorder. The…

Mental Health Corporations of America

RiverValley Behavioral Health is a member of MHCA, Mental Health Corporations of America, an alliance of select organizations that provide behavioral health and/or related services.

American Hospital Association

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care…

Zero Suicide

Zero Suicide is a transformational framework for health and behavioral health care systems. The foundational belief of Zero Suicide is that suicide deaths for individuals under the care of health…

National Council for Mental Well-being

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing is a membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of more than 3,400 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and…

American Hospital Association Hospital Community Collaborative

The AHA Hospital Community Collaborative (HCC) provides proven ideas, insights, and resources for creating effective, sustainable collaborations between hospitals and community organizations across sectors to accelerate health equity. The program…

American Society for Addiction Medicine

ASAM, founded in 1954, is a professional medical society representing over 7,000 physicians, clinicians, and associated professionals in the field of addiction medicine. ASAM is dedicated to increasing access and…

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

CMS is the federal agency that provides health coverage to more than 160 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. CMS works…

National Alliance for Recovery Residences

NARR utilizes evidence-based standards and ethical guidelines to assist dozens of state affiliates in certifying and managing recovery residences across the continuum of care and expanding the availability of well-operated,…

Recognition & Awards

Our commitment to quality care has been recognized at both the national and local level. RiverValley has received the National Mental Health Corporations of America’s Best Practices Award for client satisfaction, and has been named the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer’s Platinum Choice Mental Health and Counseling Provider for four consecutive years and Owensboro Family Favorite Mental Health Provider for three consecutive years.

These awards reflect the dedication of our staff and the trust our community places in the services we provide. We are proud to serve Western Kentucky and remain committed to earning that trust every day.