Benjamin Grant

Assigned administrative, operational, and clinical leadership for Residential Psychiatry programs, including residential mental health and addiction treatment services in October 2025. Accountable for ensuring safe, effective, patient-centered care while maintaining regulatory compliance, fiscal responsibility, workforce engagement, and quality outcomes. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to advance strategic priorities, improve operational performance, and support recovery-focused care delivery.

Psychiatric nurse leader responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of a new Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES/EmPATH) program. Provided strategic and operational leadership throughout all phases of unit development, including facility design, staffing model creation, policy development, workflow implementation, regulatory readiness, and go-live execution. Partnered with executive leadership, physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing staff, architects, information technology teams, and community stakeholders to establish an innovative emergency psychiatric care model that aims to improve access, patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and psychiatric care transition.

Oversaw psychiatric admission, transfer, discharge, and capacity management processes across emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and referral settings. Coordinated multidisciplinary placement decisions, optimized psychiatric bed utilization, improved patient throughput, and facilitated timely access to psychiatric services through collaborative patient flow management and operational process improvement initiatives.

• Employed at Mayo Clinic, Division of Psychiatry and Psychology in the inpatient Medical Psychiatry unit. Delivered nursing care for the physical and psychosocial needs of older adults and medically complex mental health patients. Focused on maximizing patients’ functional abilities while promoting, maintaining, and restoring physical and mental health. Served as Patient Care Coordinator, Charge Nurse, Preceptor, and Electroconvulsive Therapy recovery procedural RN.

• Management and oversight of 14 bed inpatient hospital unit, ECT treatment suite and Outpatient infusion services. Role included evaluation of operational, fiscal, and personnel activities within the practice. Contribution to the strategic planning process, and attainment of mutually pertinent goals of the Mayo Clinic. Responsibilities included: Managing total work unit budget, collaboration between nursing personnel and collaborative health care disciplines throughout the organization and healthcare community. Promotion of staff development and growth in a professional environment in pursuit of improved care outcomes for patients and families.

• Provided care management for patients requiring psychosocial, physical, and behavioral assessments related to mental health conditions and therapies.

• Organized and maintained working relationships within project constructs, including budgeting, personnel, and quality control.

• Interfaced and collaborated with clients and staff during the construction and installation of custom woodwork and cabinetry in residential homes and commercial projects.