Day program for acute mental-health patients to be set up at Hillsborough Hospital
Well being P.E.I. has introduced some main adjustments to its mental-health companies, together with a brand new “partial hospitalization program” and a consolidation of acute mental-health care beds in Charlottetown.
The brand new program will present 12 further acute day program therapy areas on the Hillsborough Hospital.
Corinne Rowswell, the chief working officer for Well being P.E.I., mentioned the areas will permit sufferers who don’t require inpatient care to nonetheless entry the mental-health companies they want.
“They might be receiving psychiatric care. They might be probably seeing a social employee, social companies employee, group remedy — no matter is actually wanted to make sure that individuals have the assist that they should really reside independently in the neighborhood.”
To assist the brand new service, the present inpatient capability at Unit 9 of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital — the psychiatric ward — can be transferred to the Hillsborough Hospital.
And the particular care unit, at the moment on Unit 7 of Hillsborough Hospital, can be transferred to the previous Unit 9.
Well being P.E.I. plans to implement adjustments in levels, beginning in late June. The 12 new day therapy areas at Hillsborough Hospital are anticipated to be obtainable within the early fall.
The transition will embody assist for sufferers, shoppers and households to reduce any disruption they could expertise alongside the way in which, Well being P.E.I. mentioned.
