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Causes: Mental Health, Psychiatric Hospitals
Mission: The mission of silver hill hospital is to provide our patients with the best available treatment of mental illness and addiction; and to offer continuing support, counseling and education to our patients and their families in every phase of illness and recovery.
Programs: Inpatient treatment is the most intensive form of care, indicated for a phase of illness that requires a great deal of nursing and medical intervention. Because patients are usually acutely ill during this phase of care, our inpatient treatment plans emphasize diagnostic assessment, symptom reduction, and stabilization. The hospital treated approximately 1,276 inpatients during fiscal year 2017.
silver hill hospital's transitional living programs provide highly structured intensive treatment for patients who are ready for more psychological and behavioral interventions. Set in residential, home-like settings, the transitional programs help patients continue their recovery process until they are ready to return home for further community-based treatments. Patients focus on developing a psychological understanding of their illness, obtaining information about their illness, and developing new behavioral skills to manage their recovery process. The hospital treated approximately 722 transitional living patients during fiscal year 2017.
intensive outpatient programs (iops) typically meet for three hours a day, three days per week. The hospital provides two dialectical behavior therapy iops for patients experiencing difficulty regulating intense emotions, impulsivity and harmful behaviors. These programs teach patients the core dbt skills of mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness skills and distress tolerance. The hospital also provides a women's dbt and healthy relationships iop for women who struggle with addiction to learn safe coping skills to maintain sobriety, as well as to explore underlying interpersonal issues including relationship difficulties, abuse, codependency and boundaries. In addition, the hospital provides an addiction/dual diagnosis iop which is appropriate for patients diagnosed with either an addiction or dual disorder. Groups include relapse prevention, family disease and relapse warning signs, understanding emotions, and self-esteem. This program also teaches patients dialectical behavior therapy skills such as distress tolerance.