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Acute Hospital Services
for Adults
Adult Inpatient Units
Cambridge Health
Alliance has secure hospital units at both the CHA Cambridge Hospital
and CHA Whidden Hospital campuses. These units provide intensive
and short-term psychiatry services to adults ages eighteen and older.
Our treatment
team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and
occupational therapists works to identify the reasons for psychiatric
care and the supports needed for outpatient treatment.
Treatment plans
focus on assessing the patient, stabilizing their health, and aftercare
planning.
Adult Inpatient
units include:
CHA Whidden
Hospital campus: West 2
CHA Cambridge Hospital campus: Cahill 4
Geriatric
Care
CHA understands
that older adults often need a different kind of mental health care.
That's why we have created a separate Geriatric Psychiatry Specialty
Unit (GPSU) at the CHA Whidden Hospital campus.
Our staff cares
for patients with acute behavior or cognitive health issues and
those with a primary psychiatric diagnosis who have additional medical
needs. We provide a wide range of interventions including ECT.
Typical admissions
come from patients already in the hospital, those in nursing homes,
and elders in the community who have had a significant change in
mental status.
Consultation-Liaison Services
The Consultation-Liaison
service (C-L service) works with doctors and their patients to help
manage mental health needs while the patient is undergoing medical
care. Services are available at our hospital campuses as well as
our primary care centers.
The inpatient
C-L service consults with doctors to help give their patients better
care. The staff includes attending psychiatrists, who often have
fellows, residents, or medical students working with them.
Acute Adult
Services Overview:
- Comprehensive
evaluation
- Medication
assessment
- Daily individual
monitoring of mental status and medication compliance
- Structured
group treatment in a therapeutic milieu
- Family assessment
- Family meetings
- Meetings
with outpatient caregivers and other social supports
- Case management
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