The Griffin Hospital Department of Psychiatry offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health and chemical dependency programs in a Planetree healing environment.
Inpatient Services
Griffin Hospital’s Inpatient Psychiatric Unit is a 14-bed acute care short-term treatment unit providing intensive evaluation and focused, crisis-oriented treatment for adults who cannot be treated safely on an outpatient basis.
Services include:
- Comprehensive acute stabilization of mood disorder and other behavioral health disorders
- Alcohol and drug detoxification and dual diagnosis treatment
- Inpatient Suboxone induction in conjunction with an outpatient maintenance program.
Inpatient services are provided by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, supervised by board-certified psychiatrists. The team collaborates with the patient (and family, when appropriate) to establish focused, time-limited treatment goals based on the individual needs of each patient.
The treatment program focuses on reducing symptoms, stress management, enhancing coping skills, and medication management. Traditional therapeutic approaches, such as individual and group therapy and patient and family education, are enhanced with complementary services such as arts and entertainment, journaling, yoga, aromatherapy, relaxation, and spirituality groups.
For more information, please contact Eileen Carino RN-BC, BS, Clinical Director at 203.732.7476.
Outpatient Services
- Crisis Intervention Service: 203.732.7550
- Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic: 203.732.7580
- Adult Partial Hospital Program and IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program): 203.732.7541
- Hospital Consultation and Liaison Service: 203.732.7580
- Adult Chemical Dependency Program: 203.732.7541
Crisis Intervention Service
Twenty-four hour crisis intervention and consultation services are provided to patients presenting by phone or in Griffin Hospital Emergency Services Department with a mental health related crisis.
Outpatient Psychiatric Services
This child, adolescent and adult psychiatric outpatient service is located on the hospital campus. It offers complete clinical assessments and a full range of on-going treatments for individuals, couples and families. Psychological testing and brief consultations are also available. The staff includes masters level therapists, a psychologist and psychiatrist.
Chemical Dependency Partial Hospital Program & Intensive Outpatient Program(IOP)
This program offers short-term partial hospital assessment and individualized treatment planning for adult alcohol and/or chemical abusers during the evening hours. Dually-diagnosed patients are also accepted into this program.
Adult Partial Hospital Program & Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Each program provides a highly structured, intensive, milieu based assessment and treatment program as an alternative to inpatient hospitalization or as a transition from a brief inpatient admission. Assessments and treatment plans are individualized to address the individual's acute symptoms and issues which have necessitated a more intensive level of treatment. Treatment involves a variety of group and individual modalities along with the use of psychotropic medications as indicated. A multidisciplinary team, the client and the family collaborate to develop and then achieve focused, relevant goals. This program is offered during the daytime hours, Monday through Friday.
Hospital Consultation and Liaison Service
A multidisciplinary team provides psychiatric consultation/liaison services to patients and staff on the medical/surgical floors of Griffin Hospital.