Fourth Floor, Main Building (West and East Wing)

The unit's mission is to provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, treatment, and after care planning in a community hospital setting for a population age 18 and up. The unit has been designed to promote wellness versus a sick role. The physical layout is intended to resemble home surroundings. Milieu therapy is considered an important method of treatment.

Family involvement in treatment is an important consideration. The staff also provides adequate discharge planning with appropriate referrals to prevent relapses. The goal is to render the patients capable of returning to their families and community utilizing the case management model. Staff concurrently arranges for diagnosis and treatment of medical or surgical disorders that afflict patients on the unit.

The unit provides holistic care using the multidisciplinary approach for psychiatric patients.

These patients include the following categories:

1. Substance Use Disorders
2. Schizophrenic Disorders
3. Paranoid Disorders
4. Psychotic Disorders
5. Affective Disorders
6. Anxiety Disorders
7. Somata form Disorders
8. Dissociative Disorders
9. Factitious Disorders
10. Impulse Control Disorders
11. Adjustment Disorders
12. Personality Disorders
13. Conduct Disorders
14. Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition
15. Conditions not attributable to a mental disorder that are a focus of attention or treatment
16. Suicidal/Homicidal Patients
17. Mood Disorders