New York Gracie Square Hospital Inc

Programs: As described in the needs assessment above during 2015 the hospital embarked upon a revitalization program to improve the quality of patient care and the way we provide it; with the goal of providing the highest quality, state of the art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm and healing environment. This program included improving staffing rations, quality and safety monitoring, plant renovations, its infrastructure and the implementation of an electronic health record. The following describes some the changes to our mission, culture and values, programs and healthcare team that began in 2015 and have continued during 2016 and 2017. Gracie square hospital has provided advanced, patient-centered inpatient behavioral health services since 1959. We are committed to providing patients with compassionate and comprehensive care in a warm and welcoming environment in order to facilitate their recovery and return to their families and communities. Gracie square hospital, a psychiatric inpatient facility located on a quiet side street on the upper east side of manhattan, is now experiencing a period of extraordinary transformation and revitalization. Through our affiliation with newyork-presbyterian, one of the nations premier academic healthcare delivery systems, gracie square hospital is undergoing renovations, growing its staff, and enhancing services and programs. Under new leadership, the hospital is focused on providing the highest quality of care, evidence-based treatments, education, and training. Gracie square hospitals highly specialized clinical services are comprised of special units dedicated to: * crisis stabilization program * affective disorders program * psychotic disorders program * dual focus program * older adult program * young adult program * asian psychiatry program. Gracie square hospital offers a multidisciplinary approach to care for patients with psychiatric disorders who can benefit from inpatient hospitalization. Our diagnostic and treatment programs are provided by skilled behavioral healthcare and management teams for a wide range of psychiatric illnesses and disorders. Our dedicated teams include licensed and certified staff members who create a nurturing, therapeutic environment where patients are encouraged to ask questions and gain a better understanding about their illnesses and treatment. Our goal is to help patients return to their communities to live healthy, productive lives. Our mission is to provide the highest quality, state-of the art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. Our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and communities and engage in productive and fulfilling lives. We serve the diverse residents of the greater new york metropolitan area through treatment, education and health promotion. Our culture and values at gracie square hospital, all members of our team are guided by these core values: * respect treating every person in our care with dignity and respect * compassion and empathy listening, understanding, and responding to our patients needs and concerns and dedicating ourselves to alleviating their distress * quality and excellence continuously advancing the quality of our care to achieve the highest standard of excellence * integrity maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards throughout every facet of our organization * teamwork working collaboratively within our interdisciplinary team, partnering with the individuals under our care, and involving their families and support systems programs. Acute crisis stabilization service: the crisis stabilization program at gracie square hospital provides short term hospitalization for adults with acute presentations or exacerbations of psychiatric syndromes. The service offers diagnostic assessment and treatment for the full range of mental health conditions including mood and anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders and others. Individuals requiring a safe and supportive environment for assessment and symptom relief are under the care of a multidisciplinary team. Prompt and thorough psychiatric and medical evaluations help to focus the goals of treatment. Staff members collaborate to provide comprehensive care in an acute treatment setting for rapid symptom relief. Individual therapy is available to help patients identify life stressors. Our group and therapeutic activity program is suitable for a diverse patient population. Successful return to the family and community, as well as prior work, educational and leisure activities, is the goal of the program. Therefore, discharge planning begins soon after a patient is admitted to tailor appropriate aftercare and to help patients access the most appropriate services to continue treatment as needed. Mood disorders program: gracie square hospital offers a specialized unit focusing on the treatment of adults with affective disorders. Individuals suffering from depression and bipolar disorders and other conditions manifesting mood symptoms receive state of the art psychopharmacology and psychotherapy after a thorough diagnostic assessment. Multidisciplinary treatment planning includes the treatment providers and patient for formulation of an individualized plan for care during the admission. Individual therapy, milieu treatment, diverse groups and therapeutic activities comprise active treatment, often in addition to medication management. Combinations of medications and short term therapies are often the most effective approaches for these conditions. Patients with treatment resistant symptoms or requiring complex medication regimens are often best monitored on an inpatient setting. In addition an inpatient unit with a focus on mood disorders can address safety issues and medical monitoring. During the stay experienced social workers discuss appropriate outpatient follow up and access to community resources to promote recovery. Group and individual therapies on the affective disorders unit draw upon principles from cognitive behavioral and dialectic behavioral techniques. Our multidisciplinary approach in a healing, therapeutic milieu with an array of resources aims to promote wellness while providing skills for relapse prevention and return to optimal functioning. Psychotic disorders treatment program: the psychotic disorders unit provides care for individuals with acute exacerbations of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders as well as those with bipolar disorder with psychotic features. A multidisciplinary treatment team skilled in treatment of these conditions provides a setting to manage acute symptoms as well as discussion of stressors leading to exacerbations. Group therapies target symptom identification to help patients learn warning signs as well as coping strategies to manage persistent symptoms outside of the hospital after stabilization. Education about psychotic disorders promotes better acceptance of the illnesses and encourages treatment adherence to help prevent future relapses and maximize functional recovery. The treatment milieu provides support and promotes socialization while acute symptoms are addressed by expert psychopharmacologists and psychotherapists. The patients medication history is reviewed to provide a treatment regimen designed to have the lowest side effect profile and lowest possible risk of future medical complications while treating symptoms efficiently. The individuals physical health status is assessed and monitored during the inpatient stabilization. Expert clinicians skilled in the treatment of psychotic disorders provide individual and family therapy along with education to promote the best outcomes. The unit social workers discuss community resources for ongoing stabilization and community integration. Dual focus unit: the dual focus unit provides inpatient treatment for individuals with significant emotional or psychiatric problems in addition to being chemically dependent. Gracie square hospital provides comprehensive treatment on a specialized unit which utilizes a flexible blend of psychiatric and substance abuse models in a supportive therapeutic milieu. Our staff consists of highly trained, dedicated and experienced psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, activities therapists and substance use counselors as well as medical, neurological and psychology consultants. Certain chemically dependent individuals do not respond readily to standard substance abuse treatment. Many of these patients are in fact suffering from two concurrent illnesses. Often these dually diagnosed patients are treated either in mental health or addiction systems or shuttled back and forth between them. Frequently this fragmented approach results in treatment failure. The dual focus program has been specifically designed to provide a unique integrated treatment program tailored to the needs of this special population, addressing bot