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Via Christi Behavioral Health Center:
Acute Psychiatric Care Unit:
- 20 bed intensive care unit for high risk patients
- Focus on helping patients stabilize
- High levels of staff contact and support
- Medication management
- Reality-focused orientation
Adult Unit 1:
- 20 bed general adult unit
- Focus on symptom identification, management and relapse prevention
- Family, significant others or case managers encouraged to be involved with patient consent
Adult Unit 2:
- 20 bed unit for adults with serious or persisting mental illness with acute need for supervised evaluation
- Patient and family education related to diagnosis
- Group, individual and family therapy options
- Relapse prevention
Adolescent Unit:
- 20 bed short term, acute unit for ages 11-17
- Treatment focused on accurate diagnosis and reality oriented therapy
- Family involvement emphasized
Via Christi Hospital on Harry:
Senior Behavioral Health Unit:
- 28 bed gero-psychiatric unit for adults over age 55
- designed to meet mental health needs of the elderly
- Assists elderly adults and their support network to develop strategies to stabilize their needs
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