Continuum of Care
Services for Every Situation
 The continuum of care offers services for every situation.
You can enter care at any point along the continuum, and move seamlessly from one level to the next, maximizing your treatment success without disruptions.
Crisis Stabilization
Crisis Stabilization provides the most intensive level of care in the most
highly supervised milieu for individuals suffering from acute psychiatric disturbances.
The priority of care in the program is safety and prevention of self-harm due
to suicidal or homicidal ideation or inability to care for one's self. Treatment
is delivered under the care of the attending psychiatrist, working with nurses,
therapists and technicians. The focus of care is on reality orientation and
sensory integration. Basic activity of daily living skills are provided and
taught.
Crisis Stabilization and Inpatient Hospitalization are the facility's most
intensive levels of care. Patients are closely monitored, and family members
are invited to participate in support and educational sessions with the staff
while their family member is in treatment.
Inpatient Hospitalization
 The Inpatient Hospitalization program provides treatment in a milieu/group
format for individuals with psychiatric conditions that are amenable to cognitive
therapy. Group work facilitates the patient expressing themselves to peers and
staff in order to experience supportive feedback and recognition from the peer
group. The groups are dynamic and topic driven. In addition, the treatment team
provides a high level of education regarding mental health and interventions
to maintain healthy living.
Partial Day Hospitalization (PHP)
PHP is a program that operates Monday through Friday, providing participants
with structured group therapy and education. The program is equipped to handle
individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis as well as those who have a dual diagnosis
condition. Treatment is provided in an interdisciplinary manner utilizing group
format. The attending psychiatrist is the leader of the team and oversees all
aspects of treatment.
PHP is often utilized as a step down from inpatient treatment and can also be used as a step up from traditional outpatient therapy. Therapy and Discharge planning staff are available to assist patients in accessing these options within the community.
Outpatient Services
Millwood Hospital provides a wide range of outpatient services as part of the continuum of care. Outpatient services can be a point of entry to treatment, a step up from traditional community based outpatient treatment or as a step down from inpatient treatment either here at Millwood Hospital or any other program. The dedicated professional staff of our outpatient services are dedicated to helping you achieve your maximum level of stability and functioning.
Medication Management
Individuals frequently require assistance with medication related to mental
health and/or chemical dependency issues. Millwood provides referrals to psychiatrists
in the community as well as to the Millwood Clinic.
Outpatient Referral
When the need for traditional outpatient services have been identified, individuals
may be referred to an extensive community network of professionals. Millwood
makes every attempt to provide choices that match the needs of each individual.
Aftercare
Success of treatment depends heavily on the availability of continued support. Our commitment to the process of maintaining healthy
living with skills learned in the treatment process means that several of our
programs provide weekly aftercare meetings for patients who participated in
treatment. We hold aftercare meetings, facilitated by program
staff, at the hospital.
While not a therapy group, these supportive meetings provide former patients
with an opportunity to meet others with similar problems and share their experience,
strength and hope. Attendance at aftercare meetings is purely voluntary and
is completely free of charge. We are proud to note that several program alumni
continue to come to aftercare meetings several years after their treatment episode.
They continue to gain support while serving as an example to others that treatment
does work.
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