Value Options

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValueOptions
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ValueOptions, Inc. is the largest privately-owned behavioral health maintenance organization (BHMO) in the United States. Based in Norfolk, Virginia, ValueOptions, Inc. is the product of a 1998 merger of two smaller companies, Value Behavioral Health and OPTIONS. The company is a subsidiary of FHC Health Systems which was founded in 1983 by psychiatrist Dr.
Ronald I. Dozoretz, MD, who is the company's CEO and Chairman of the Board. ValueOptions provides behavioral healthcare management to Fortune 500 companies, national and regional health plans, and federal, state, and local governments [1]. Most ValueOptions locations are accredited by URAC (formerly the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission).

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,100795,00.html
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BIG DOINGS ON THE HILL (3/01/01 [a.m.] The House Government Reform Committee prepares to hear testimony from former Clinton aides John Podesta, Beth Nolan and Bruce Lindsey. Democratic fund-raiser Beth Dozoretz appears in person only to take the Fifth.

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DENISE A NO-SHOW? (2/27/01 [p.m.]): Congressional Democrats dispute allegations that Denise Rich (ex-wife of Marc Rich) and DNC fund-raiser Beth Dozoretz visited the White House on the eve of Clinton's last day in office. Sources insist that while both women were cleared by the Secret Service to attend a party held for a staffer that night, neither actually came to the event. The alleged January 19 visit was under intense scrutiny; President Clinton granted Marc Rich's controversial pardon on January 20.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/vanity-school-fair/7124/
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Indeed, the race to land Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, is already well underway and is one of the most closely watched contests in Washington. Several weeks ago, prominent Democratic donors, and one-time Clinton loyalists, Beth and Ronald Dozoretz (she was the Clinton bundler who intervened with the president to help secure a pardon for the fugitive financier Marc Rich) attended a dinner for Barack Obama at a private home in Virginia, where Michelle Obama was among the guests. With Michelle’s husband ahead in the polls, victory and transition were on the minds of those in attendance. The Dozoretzes—who named their daughter after Melanne Verveer, Hillary’s former White House chief of staff, and then asked Bill Clinton to be her godfather—had a personal request for the soon-to-be first lady. Beth Dozoretz delivered a handwritten note from Melanne, a fourth-grader at the prestigious, Quaker-run Sidwell Friends School, who is the same age as Malia Obama. Melanne had written to say how much she hoped the Obamas would enroll their daughters at Sidwell Friends.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/socialDC200712?printable=true&currentPage=all#gotopage4
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T he Clintons’ second term was mired in the Monica Lewinsky scandal and ended with the president’s shocking eleventh-hour pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich. Favored hostesses during the time were Clinton fund-raisers, who are now hoping a second Clinton presidency will provide a new opportunity to shine. One of the most aggressive contenders still vying to become a successor to the likes of Pamela Harriman is Beth Dozoretz, former Democratic National Committee finance chair.
Dozoretz, who constantly touted her close, personal relationship with Bill Clinton and pledged to raise $1 million for the Clinton library, is a onetime garment-industry executive married to Ron Dozoretz, a psychiatrist and the C.E.O. of a behavioral-health-care company that is heavily dependent on state contracts and that has been criticized in the past for providing substandard services. He contributes to both Republicans and Democrats. His wife first became known to the public when she took the Fifth Amendment before Congress in order not to have to answer questions about her role in the Marc Rich pardon. Last February, Clinton friends were taken aback when the Dozoretzes hosted a fund-raiser for New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, a presidential candidate, but that should not have been surprising considering the contract for a reported $325 million that Ron Dozoretz’s FHC Health Systems has in New Mexico. Beth Dozoretz is said to phone media outlets to tout her parties and ask to be included on “A-lists,” and in the middle of dinners she allegedly confers with her husband to discuss whom they’ve spoken with and whom they should cultivate.


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991201,00.html
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Some in her own party call Beth Dozoretz, the Democrats' chief fund raiser, an arriviste, "wily and calculating," in the words of a colleague. There's the zealous way she plays hostess: soon after moving to Washington in 1994, she began holding frequent fund raisers at her posh Georgetown apartment, causing some to dub her a Pamela Harriman wannabe. There's the palatial home hopping: in 1996 she and her husband bought Senator John Warner's former home for more than $2 million, then sold it before moving in so they could snag Michael and Arianna Huffington's digs for twice the price. Then there's her habit of turning up next to Bill Clinton regularly at party events. Last year she named Clinton her baby girl's godfather, throwing a party for the infant that drew an array of Hollywood and political pals, plus a rabbi, a nun and a swami.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322802/fullcredits
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Produced by
Lori Ashcraft ....  segment producer 
Sean Cliver ....  co-producer 
Dimitry Elyashkevich ....  co-producer 


http://www.behavioral.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=64D490AC6A7D4FE1AEB453627F1A4A32&tier=4&id=ED588DA6B5944933954A46075CF8E4A6
(For those of you who might remember Lori Ashcraft was one of the people at META Services who I accused of double billing and having had 4 CFOs in 3 years.)  ...cal
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Lori Ashcraft, PhD, directs the Recovery Opportunity Center at Recovery Innovations, Inc., in Phoenix. She is also a member of Behavioral Healthcare's Editorial Board. William A. Anthony, PhD, is Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. Chris Martin, MA, is Director of Training and Consultation at the Recovery Opportunity Center at Recovery Innovations. To contact the authors, e-mail lori@recoveryopportunity.com.

Lori Ashcraft

Executive Director
Recovery Opportunity Center

http://www.mcmanweb.com/doing_recovery.html
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Mr Johnson came back from his conference determined to turn things around. His first edict was a ban on seclusion and restraints. This was a tall order, as 40 percent of the 1,200 patients its two centers saw every month were brought in involuntarily. Staff also feared for their own safety, which in Mr Johnson’s mind was precisely the reason for turning the organization on its head - clinical decisions were being made based on the staffers’ anxiety, not on what was best for the patient.
As Lori Ashcraft PhD, executive director of RI, explained in so many words, when staff fear meets patient fear, generally good things do not happen.

http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=641&id=52711
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02/09/2009

The following is a selection of articles authored or co-authored by Boston University's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation staff during 2008. These articles are linked to publisher's web sites where they are available as free downloads or for purchase.

Rein in seclusion and restraints
They are not compatible with recovery-oriented services
by Lori Ashcraft, William A. Anthony, and Shannon Jaccard

Creating good endings
Service users and staff judge your performance based on your final acts
by Lori Ashcraft and William A. Anthony

http://recoveryinnovations.org/
See Gene Johnson in video inside.........  (I shared ages ago with my soulmate that Gene Johnson and his 'wife' Lori Ashcraft had a site out on the net that was black witchcraft... hmmmm JohnyMonster, I'm telling you, these people ARE NOT who they appear to be.  Matter of fact a few days ago I went out and did some stuffs on a death of actor who appeared in the Jackass movies and Lori Ashcraft is still showing up there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5daTgXZ6-w Ryan Dunn sacrificed)  ...cal

http://www.nyaprs.org/e-news-bulletins/2011/2011-08-17-5-Weeks-Left-for-NYAPRS-Conference-Workshop-Schedule-Register-Today.cfm  (Ashcraft was/is rumor had it never was the wife of Gene Johnson who was CEO at Meta Services.  Rumors had it she was very involved in Value Options like the QUEEN???)  ...cal
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Featured Speakers Include:

Diane Grieder, Med AliPar, Inc., Suffolk, VA

Maria Restrepo-Toro, MS, CPRP Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston, MA

Matthew Federici Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery, Brattleboro, VT

Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, CPRP Institute for Wellness & Recovery Initiatives, Freehold, NJ

Kathleen Crowley Stratt ProCovery Institute, North Hollywood, CA

Lori Ashcraft, PhD, CPRP Recovery Opportunities Center, Phoenix, AZ

NYAPRS CONFERENCE PROGRAM