Mental Health
Youth Services: Partial Hospitalization Programs
(PHP)
Partial Hospitalization is an on-campus day program
that offers the intensity of acute inpatient care without having to stay overnight
in the hospital. It is offered separately to children ages 5 to 12 and adolescents,
ages 12 to 17 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Montevista provides
transportation to and from home, serves breakfast and lunch, two snacks and
provides on-site classroom instruction to the school age children.
Advantages of PHP:
- Patient continues to live at home, but comes
to hospital for care.
- Children and adolescents continue to attend
regular school classes at the hospital campus and receive credit through the
Homebound program of the Clark County School District. No one at the child's
former school needs to know why the child is not attending, or what the nature
of the child's alternative education is.
- Weekly psychiatric oversight and supervision
- Skilled nursing interventions
- Multi-disciplinary treatment team
- Stabilization of condition that would otherwise
result in hospitalization.
- Tutorial school classes (for children and
adolescents) may be offered
- Hospital stays may be shortened by "step-down"
to PHP
- Less-intensive, less-expensive alternative
to hospitalization.
- Specialty programs available
- Patients with dual diagnosis can participate
in both tracks of PHP programs
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