*********Dr. Aileen Oandasan*** to accept 2026 Psychiatric Services
Silver Award at APA Conference on May 20 on behalf of Nulton Diagnostic
and Treatment Center!** For over 75 years, the Psychiatric Services
Achievement Awards have recognized creative models of service delivery
and innovative programs for people with mental illness or
disabilities.
Silver Award Winner:
Community Based Intensive Treatment (CBIT) at Nulton Diagnostic
and Treatment Center** The CBIT program at Nulton Diagnostic and
Treatment Center is a multidisciplinary, community-integrated behavioral
health model that is serving high-acuity individuals at 14 locations
across Pennsylvania. The CBIT program will deliver fast-tracked
psychiatric care, wraparound support services, and real-time care
coordination to individuals with serious mental illness—without
requiring new licensure or specialty programs like assertive community
treatment. The CBIT model will leverage existing “in-plan”
Medicaid services—such as nursing care, case management and outpatient
therapy—arranged into an intensive, time-limited framework.
https://www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2026.04.4.43
Dr. Aileen Oandasan is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who lives
in Laughlintown, Pennsylvania (next to Ligonier and an hour east of
Pittsburgh). She completed her medical degree at Texas A&M
University, general psychiatric adult training at Georgetown University
and child and adolescent fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
After early years in academic medicine with UTMB in Galveston, Dr.
Oandasan now serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Nulton Diagnostic
and Treatment Center in addition to the Medical Director of the school
based Chill Project through Allegheny Health Network. She is the current
Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society.