Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca Behavioral Services Unit

Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca Behavioral Services Unit

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

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

• Private non-profit organization

Type of Care

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

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Other Languages

• Russian

Ancillary Services

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

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Other languages (excluding Spanish)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Treatment Approaches

• Activity therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services