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Inpatient Program
The patient’s attending physician leads a highly skilled treatment team in
the provision of a very individualized program of care
for the patient. Our inpatient programs are designed for
the unique needs of the elderly and those with chronic
mental illness ages 35 and older.
Inpatient Hospitalization
OSH offers residential treatment for those in crisis where evidence warrants
continual supervision for individuals with inability to function normally as a
result of psychiatric symptoms.
The patient’s attending physician leads a highly skilled treatment team in
the provision of a very individualized program of care
for the patient. Our inpatient programs are designed for
the unique needs of the elderly and those with chronic
mental illness ages 35 and older.
Inpatient Hospitalization
OSH offers residential treatment for those in crisis where evidence warrants
continual supervision for individuals with inability to function normally as a
result of psychiatric symptoms.
Optima Specialty Hospital is committed to identifying and enhancing the skills
of the professional staff we recruit and only seek clinical, are committed to
working with you to improve your life situation. This handbook is designed to
assist you in understanding our program and hopefully to answer any questions
you may have.
Your doctor, therapist, nurses and staff will all be working together with you to
form a team to confront your problems. Each member of the team will be
evaluating your situation and when all the evaluations are completed, a staff
member will meet with you or a designated family member to set goals and define
treatments. These evaluations will be used to treat the discomforts that you feel.
It is important that you understand that our staff will be working with you and that
you are a member of the team -- so your involvement, as well as any identified
family member(s) is essential. While progress is being made, sometimes changes
are uncomfortable; however, your goal is our goal and working together will ease
the stress.
Living in a group situation makes rules and regulations necessary. While you
may not understand the reasons for a particular rule or regulation, these are
designed with the best interest of all patients -- as well as safety considerations.
The staff will be available to discuss and/or explain any part of the program that
you find problematic. Except as a part of professional therapy, there will be
no touching, holding hands or any physical contact with other patients. Patients
are discouraged from visiting in each other’s rooms.
Optima Specialty Hospital will be your temporary home and
we ask that you treat it as such.
At Optima Specialty Hospital every patient is entitled to privacy whether on the
phone, during visitation or in writing. Out of respect for the confidentiality and
privacy of others, we request that both patients and visitors refrain from
discussing names or identities of anyone who is hospitalized here. At the time of
admission you will be given a code number. You will be responsible for giving this
code number to family or friends whom you wish to have knowledge or input
regarding your treatment at Optima Specialty Hospital. Your family and friends
must use this number if they call to inquire about you or if they visit.
Click Here for Privacy Regulations
If you have a problem or complaint during your hospital stay, please notify the
charge nurse. If your problem cannot be resolved at this level, you may contact
the Administration of the Hospital (Director of Nursing or the Administrator.)
DAILY SCHEDULE
Please note that there is a schedule of activities posted in the day room.
Activities are a part of your therapy. You will be required to attend all activities.
While you may not feel like participating in activities, they are important for a
number of reasons; exercise, socialization, understanding ourselves and our
behavior, a method of keeping ourselves occupied, etc. Television and
telephones are turned off during scheduled activities to facilitate you treatment.
Temperatures and blood pressures are taken by nursing staff. Your physical
condition is important, and therefore, laboratory studies will be ordered by your
doctor. Weights are taken every two days.
GOOD MORNING
You will be awakened per the program schedule for your diagnosed condition.
Your expected responsibilities include: making your own bed when possible,
putting your clothing away and placing your toilet articles in the hygiene box and
returning it to the nurse’s station after use. If you require assistance with these
activities, staff will be available to help you. Your DOOR should remain OPEN
after you have dressed in the morning and throughout the day.
THERAPEUTIC GROUPS
Group Psychotherapy: Group therapy is a very important part of your
treatment and you are expected to attend unless you have been excused by your
physician. The focus of this group is to deal with the problems that brought you
to the hospital, as well as problems that have been identified in your treatment
plan. Topics vary but the following are some examples:
Life Skills Management Group: A life skills group that deals with decision
making and integrating the necessary skills into one’s
lifestyle to support and maintain recovery.
Solution Focus Groups: These groups are provided to allow you to explore
further your individual issues, develop insight into destructive behavior patterns
and learn new skills and coping techniques. Topics are related to your
individualized r\treatment needs and may include the following groups:
Grief and Loss: Focuses on identifying past and recent losses and then
working through the grief process.
Relationships: Explores men and women’s roles in society and how they impact
each other.
Spirituality: focuses on individual’s concept of a higher power. The aspects of
faith, trust, and hope help strengthen recovery after
discharge.
Recreational Therapy Group: Therapeutic Recreation Specialists will work with
you to help improve in the areas of leisure, coping
skills and any other needs that may fall under the Activity Therapy Services.
Leisure Skills Development: To increase knowledge base pertaining to leisure
opportunities that is a healthy alternative to the disease process.
Coping Skills Group: To increase ability to cope with stressors of everyday
living.
Cognitive Groups: To provide patients assistance with inability to focus and
direct needed concentrative energies on task with enhanced cognitive functioning.
Community Group: A daily group to give all patients and staff members the
opportunity to support one another, share concerns and promote recovery.
MEALS
Meals are served cafeteria-style in the hospital dining room. Patients in Track I
will have meals served on the unit. Patients in Track II are encouraged to go to
the cafeteria dining room for meals unless restricted per physician’s order. All
patients will go and return from the dining room as a group. We encourage
patients from the same unit to sit together in the dining room. Cafeteria
hours are posted on the unit. Food and drinks cannot be taken from the
cafeteria after meals. Patients requiring special diets may have a dietary consult
and meals ordered in advance. Each patient is responsible for complying with
their own dietary requirements.
ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD OR DRINK is allowed in your room or closets according
to sanitary regulations and infection control guidelines. NO FOOD PRODUCTS
ARE TO BE BROUGHT INTO THE HOSPITAL BY FAMILY MEMBERS OR
OTHER OUTSIDE SOURCES.
of the professional staff we recruit and only seek clinical, are committed to
working with you to improve your life situation. This handbook is designed to
assist you in understanding our program and hopefully to answer any questions
you may have.
Your doctor, therapist, nurses and staff will all be working together with you to
form a team to confront your problems. Each member of the team will be
evaluating your situation and when all the evaluations are completed, a staff
member will meet with you or a designated family member to set goals and define
treatments. These evaluations will be used to treat the discomforts that you feel.
It is important that you understand that our staff will be working with you and that
you are a member of the team -- so your involvement, as well as any identified
family member(s) is essential. While progress is being made, sometimes changes
are uncomfortable; however, your goal is our goal and working together will ease
the stress.
Living in a group situation makes rules and regulations necessary. While you
may not understand the reasons for a particular rule or regulation, these are
designed with the best interest of all patients -- as well as safety considerations.
The staff will be available to discuss and/or explain any part of the program that
you find problematic. Except as a part of professional therapy, there will be
no touching, holding hands or any physical contact with other patients. Patients
are discouraged from visiting in each other’s rooms.
Optima Specialty Hospital will be your temporary home and
we ask that you treat it as such.
At Optima Specialty Hospital every patient is entitled to privacy whether on the
phone, during visitation or in writing. Out of respect for the confidentiality and
privacy of others, we request that both patients and visitors refrain from
discussing names or identities of anyone who is hospitalized here. At the time of
admission you will be given a code number. You will be responsible for giving this
code number to family or friends whom you wish to have knowledge or input
regarding your treatment at Optima Specialty Hospital. Your family and friends
must use this number if they call to inquire about you or if they visit.
Click Here for Privacy Regulations
If you have a problem or complaint during your hospital stay, please notify the
charge nurse. If your problem cannot be resolved at this level, you may contact
the Administration of the Hospital (Director of Nursing or the Administrator.)
DAILY SCHEDULE
Please note that there is a schedule of activities posted in the day room.
Activities are a part of your therapy. You will be required to attend all activities.
While you may not feel like participating in activities, they are important for a
number of reasons; exercise, socialization, understanding ourselves and our
behavior, a method of keeping ourselves occupied, etc. Television and
telephones are turned off during scheduled activities to facilitate you treatment.
Temperatures and blood pressures are taken by nursing staff. Your physical
condition is important, and therefore, laboratory studies will be ordered by your
doctor. Weights are taken every two days.
GOOD MORNING
You will be awakened per the program schedule for your diagnosed condition.
Your expected responsibilities include: making your own bed when possible,
putting your clothing away and placing your toilet articles in the hygiene box and
returning it to the nurse’s station after use. If you require assistance with these
activities, staff will be available to help you. Your DOOR should remain OPEN
after you have dressed in the morning and throughout the day.
THERAPEUTIC GROUPS
Group Psychotherapy: Group therapy is a very important part of your
treatment and you are expected to attend unless you have been excused by your
physician. The focus of this group is to deal with the problems that brought you
to the hospital, as well as problems that have been identified in your treatment
plan. Topics vary but the following are some examples:
Life Skills Management Group: A life skills group that deals with decision
making and integrating the necessary skills into one’s
lifestyle to support and maintain recovery.
Solution Focus Groups: These groups are provided to allow you to explore
further your individual issues, develop insight into destructive behavior patterns
and learn new skills and coping techniques. Topics are related to your
individualized r\treatment needs and may include the following groups:
Grief and Loss: Focuses on identifying past and recent losses and then
working through the grief process.
Relationships: Explores men and women’s roles in society and how they impact
each other.
Spirituality: focuses on individual’s concept of a higher power. The aspects of
faith, trust, and hope help strengthen recovery after
discharge.
Recreational Therapy Group: Therapeutic Recreation Specialists will work with
you to help improve in the areas of leisure, coping
skills and any other needs that may fall under the Activity Therapy Services.
Leisure Skills Development: To increase knowledge base pertaining to leisure
opportunities that is a healthy alternative to the disease process.
Coping Skills Group: To increase ability to cope with stressors of everyday
living.
Cognitive Groups: To provide patients assistance with inability to focus and
direct needed concentrative energies on task with enhanced cognitive functioning.
Community Group: A daily group to give all patients and staff members the
opportunity to support one another, share concerns and promote recovery.
MEALS
Meals are served cafeteria-style in the hospital dining room. Patients in Track I
will have meals served on the unit. Patients in Track II are encouraged to go to
the cafeteria dining room for meals unless restricted per physician’s order. All
patients will go and return from the dining room as a group. We encourage
patients from the same unit to sit together in the dining room. Cafeteria
hours are posted on the unit. Food and drinks cannot be taken from the
cafeteria after meals. Patients requiring special diets may have a dietary consult
and meals ordered in advance. Each patient is responsible for complying with
their own dietary requirements.
ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD OR DRINK is allowed in your room or closets according
to sanitary regulations and infection control guidelines. NO FOOD PRODUCTS
ARE TO BE BROUGHT INTO THE HOSPITAL BY FAMILY MEMBERS OR
OTHER OUTSIDE SOURCES.
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| Never let your fears stop you from seeking assistance for your emotional and mental problems. A MESAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR My best friend has a very successful career as a Professor at a very prestigious university. He accomplished this as he hid his severe mental illness known as acute bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive illness.) Why did he hide his illness all those years? Mainly due to the fear of the social stigma that mental illness still carries today. In fact, my friend is convinced that he would have never received his Department head position had his illness been revealed and I think that level of thinking still exists today. Thank Goodness for all the latest restrictions and regulations that maintain confidentiality for all practitioners regarding these illnesses. Sadly, some people today maintain their negative feelings about mental illness even more than they did fifty years ago. This has mainly occured due to the recent outbreaks of violence from the severely mentally ill. These extreme cases that make broadcast news headlines are few and far between. People have to realize that a history of mental illness is not a moral failing, and that it is a chronic condition like any "physical" disease. In addition, only a small percentage of the mentally ill ever pose even the slightest threat of hostile behavior. Unfortunately too many individuals, especially those in the media, tend to unduly link violence with chronic mental illness and stereotype even those with minor emotional illnesses as a potential danger to our society. Recent sociological studies have revealed that in many cases those who have learned to cope with a major mental or emotional disorder not only become very productive citizens in our community, but have actually shown to possess a higher ability to handle severe levels of stress than those who have never had to manage their own recovery from mental illness. We all wish to be accepted for who we really are and not the limitations of a diagnosis of mental illness. At Optima we understand and respect any reluctance you may have regarding seeking help for your individual mental or emotional problems. But please do not let that stop you or your loved one from seeking the appropriate psychiatric care and treatment you may need. Let us assist you in finding the treatment solution best suited for your particular problems and circumstances. Your only regret will result from your lack of action. Please reach out to someone who cares. Michael Geissler OSH/Administrator |
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