Yale New Haven Hospital

The Inpatient Service provides services for acutely ill psychiatric patients. Treatment includes a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation which may include medical, neurological, psychometric, family, and vocational assessments. Patients also receive intensive short-term treatment with the goal of alleviating symptoms and rapidly returning them to the community. Treatment is based on individual treatment plans and includes individual, group, family and milieu psychotherapy together with psychotropic medication. The average length of stay is approximately 10 days.

The Inpatient service is divided into two specialized programs: 1) The Adult Program which provides brief treatment for patients with acute psychiatric disorders and 2) The Geriatric Program which provides treatment for elderly patients with psychiatric disorders and also patients who have concurrent medical illnesses.

The Consultation Service provides psychiatric consultation for all adult medical, surgical, and obstetrical/gynecological services at YNHH. Each psychiatric consultation consists of a thorough assessment and the formulation of a treatment regimen based on a careful differential diagnosis, an understanding of relevant psychosocial factors, and a knowledge of psychopharmacology.

The Partial Hospital Program is a short-term, group based treatment setting. It provides an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization as well as a transition from the hospital to the community. Patients attend the PHP for 5 hours each weekday and participate in groups such as group therapy, family issues, or vocational therapy.

The Psychiatric Emergency Service is known as the Crisis Intervention Unit. Located in the Emergency Department on the first floor of the hospital, staff provide emergency evaluation and crisis management for approximately 4,000 patient visits per year. The CIU does rapid diagnostic assessments and formulates disposition plans for paitents with a wide variety of diagnosis.

The Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic receives many referrals from other YNHH clinics for psychiatric consultation. It provides several treatment modalities: diagnostic evaluation, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy, and psychopharmacologic treatment.

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