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Girard
Medical Center INPATIENT SERVICES
Continuing Care Hospital
The Continuing Care Hospital (CCH) is geared towards
patients whose condition require acute care services over an
extended period of time i.e. a minimum of twenty-five (25) days. The
CCH specializes in ventilator weaning and complex wound management.
CCH is a referral hospital to which patients are transferred
to continue their complex acute care. These patients are referred to
CCH by acute care hospitals which are not reimbursed for these
patients. The patients
are typically frail and elderly and have been treated at one of the
area's acute care facilities.
Psychiatric Programs
NPHS is one of the area's largest providers of inpatient,
residential and outpatient psychiatric services.
The following are the inpatient services provided by GMC
Acute Psychiatry
A hospital level program serving individuals with severe mental
illness. The majority
of patients are involuntarily committed following court proceedings. This service has been in operation for over 5 years and has
developed a good reputation for treating a significantly impaired
population.
Extended Acute Psychiatry
A twenty-two (22) bed hospital level program specifically
designed to serve dual diagnosis (mental illness and substance
abuse) patients whose illness requires a longer than average length
of stay. Most patients
are involuntarily committed, the average length of stay for patients
in this program is approximately 75 days.
Utilization has been at one hundred percent (100%) with a
waiting list.
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