Northern Westchester Hospital Center Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

Northern Westchester Hospital Center Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

Services:
Facility Smoking Policy
• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Type of Care

• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicaid
• Medicare

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Young adults

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Private non-profit organization

Testing

• STD testing
• TB screening
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• Laboratory testing
• HIV testing

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Integrated primary care services

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Group therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Activity therapy
• Couples/family therapy

Pharmacotherapies

• Fluphenazine
• Paliperidone
• Haloperidol
• Cariprazine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Olanzapine
• Aripiprazole
• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Nicotine replacement
• Lurasidone
• Chlorpromazine
• Quetiapine
• Perphenazine
• Thiothixene
• Trifluoperazine
• Clozapine
• Asenapine
• Ziprasidone

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient