Psychiatric Units

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Specialization:

In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; (2) For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The unit must furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning. **




Dr. Vishnu Challapalli MD
Dr. Jeffrey Seley MD
Dr. Benigno Fernandez MD, PA
Andres Chaparro Rincon MD
Dr. Rachelle Hotz MD
Dr. Maralexis Rivera MD
Mr. Harry Hernandez MSW
Dr. Ghulam Murtaza Bajwa
Amir Garakani MD
James Hennes RN
Dr. Eric Mueller MD
Karen Mihal RN
Dr. Sima Paul MD
Bradley Peterson MD
John Kitchin
Jesus Rodriguez Rodriguez MD
Mr. Juan Alvarez MSW
Ms. Julie Denny RN
Gina Torto PSYD
Mr. Rowland Hill LCSW
Ms. Roberta Nugent OT
Dr. Sherry Baldwin PHD, CTS, NCLPC, NCC
Mrs. Teresa Hu RN
Irene Akinsinde LPN
Ms. Kathryn Morrissey-Burch MA
Jon Ehinger ATR-BC, LCAT
Maria Charney LICENSED RN
Dr. Carlos Zarate JR. MD
Susan Mora RN
Dr. Tania Holly MD
Hanheung Lee MD
Ernesto Ramos
Dr. Thaddeus Ozimek MD
Jamie Tallman RN
Rachel Dean RN
Mr. Eric Beeson LCPC, CRC
Mr. Richard Galvan LCSW
Louise Pugh
Pamela Cordis Ponce LICSW
Ms. Vania Brown-Small APRN, BC
Don Pablo
Mrs. Colleen Faust RN
Mrs. Joyce Lyons RN
Ahmed Abdel-Raouf MD
Annette Graffeo RN
Indrani Nath
Mrs. Leewa Khatiwada LMSW
Ms. Christine Rolle
Ms. Lynda St-Pierre LMHC
Jeanine Borden NP
Ms. Carrie Hanley LMSW
Urella Nwabueze
Angel Amodo
Dorothy Joanis FNP
Eric Agbagbey