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In-Home Mental Health Program
The Mental Health Home Care Program serves adults, the elderly. Children and adolescents.
VNSW employs registered nurses with advanced psychiatric training. The nurses conduct home visits for assessment, evaluation and development of a treatment plan with interventions related to mental health issues in conjunction with medical/surgical needs. This program meets the total health care requirements of individuals utilizing a case management approach led by a psychiatric nurse specialist. Adjunct services complementing the mental health component include home health aides, medical/surgical nurses, social work and relevant rehabilitation therapies.
Program Benefits
- Complete the continuum of psychiatric care with a seamless transitioning of patients from the in-patient unit to the home and community
- Prevent expensive in-patient hospitalization by providing crisis intervention, stabilization and monitoring services therefore keeping patient linked to necessary community based psychiatric services
- Improve functional ability; decrease symptoms; improve knowledge base about medications, illness, coping, staying well, accessing community services
- Improve medication compliance which is essential in decreasing relapse in the seriously and persistently mentally ill
- Improve quality of patient’s life through a committed therapeutic relationship that facilitates positive change in the patient
- Improve family life through supportive interventions and education
Services
- Structure in the home environment
- Assistance with home management focusing on inadequate levels of functioning, hygiene issues and compliance with medication regimen
- Administration of I.M. long-acting psychotropics
- Liaison with the community treatment team informing them of changes and important symptoms that may indicate decompensation or need for changes in the treatment plan
- On-going assessment of all health needs relevant to the individual’s diagnoses
- Consultative services for the individual whose primary diagnosis is medical/surgical in nature, however, due to difficulty coping with illness, requires mental health intervention
- Coordinated home care services for non-compliant individuals and those with complex combined mental health/physical needs that present ongoing problems
E-mail for more info, or call (914) 682-1480, ext. 648
