Mental Health

Youth Services: Acute Inpatient Care

Acute inpatient hospitalization occurs only with a physician's order for conditions that cannot be safely or effectively treated on an outpatient basis. It is the most intensive level of care offered and provides 24-hour skilled nursing observation and care, daily interventions and oversight by a psychiatrist, and intensive, highly coordinated treatment by a physician-led team of mental health professionals. Inpatient hospitalization is always short-term and designed to quickly stabilize the most serious symptoms to allow a quick transition to less-intensive levels of care. Montevista Hospital offers acute inpatient care for adults, adolescents (ages 13 to 18), and to children ages 4 to 12. Dual Diagnosis programs are available for adults and adolescents with a secondary chemical dependency diagnosis.

Advantages of Acute Inpatient:

• Safe, controlled, structured environment
• 24 hour skilled nursing care
• Intensive physician involvement.
• Physician-led multi-disciplinary treatment team.
• Able to utilize both medication and psychotherapy, as appropriate.
• Intensive treatment not available on an outpatient basis.
• Tutorial-based school program available
• Up to 10 hours of daily programming.
• 7 day a week programming.

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