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Presented at Stone Institute of Psychiatry Employee Open Forums November 8, 2007 By

Psychiatry Update. Presented at Stone Institute of Psychiatry Employee Open Forums November 8, 2007 By Maureen Slade and Ronald Krasner, MD. Agenda. Welcome New Chairman – Department of Psychiatry Inpatient Psychiatric Services Enhanced Outpatient Services Questions and Answers.

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  1. Psychiatry Update Presented at Stone Institute of Psychiatry Employee Open Forums November 8, 2007 By Maureen Slade and Ronald Krasner, MD

  2. Agenda • Welcome • New Chairman – Department of Psychiatry • Inpatient Psychiatric Services • Enhanced Outpatient Services • Questions and Answers

  3. Chairman Selection • John G. Csernansky, MD • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri • Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology • Director, Silvio Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders • Site Principal Investigator, Treatment Units for research on Neurocognition and Schizophrenia (TURNS) • Chicago Native • Northwestern Graduate (BA, Chemistry) • Likely to start February or March of 2008

  4. Inpatient Psychiatric Services • Galter Pavilion, Floor 13 • 30 Inpatient Beds • Estimated move Spring 2010 • Beautiful, state-of-the-art, healing environment for psychiatric patients

  5. Enhanced Outpatient Services • Offer a short stay unit in the ED to more appropriately diagnose and link ED patients to the best treatment options • Provide Intensive Case Management to our most at risk patients to support a seamless transition to treatment • Develop step-down services through a Partial Hospital Program that serves acute patients • Improved Access to Outpatient Treatment • Expanded Emergency Housing Programs and actively link patients to housing options

  6. Psych ED DMAIC Project • Goal – Care of the Psychiatric patient in the ED is timely, safe and effective • LOS varies between 9 and 15 hours based on disposition type • Implemented the project in July 2007 • Staff highly involved in defining issues and data collection which completed in Oct 2007 • Important take away – 69% of Psych patient in the ED are medically complex therefore 31% of the patients may be amenable to a fast track for medical clearance

  7. Galter Inpatient Unit Design Process • Multiple Design Meetings in Spring 2007 • Multidisciplinary leadership workgroups • 3 inpatient staff workgroups • PM and weekend workgroups • Chairman, Medical Director and Residency Training Director participation • 2 site visits • Avera-McKennan - Sioux Falls, South Dakota • Indiana State Psychiatric Hospital – Evansville, Indiana

  8. Questions and Answers

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