E06- Mind the Gap: Mental Illness and Medical Care through Complexity Intervention Units
- Room: 221B
- Session Number:E06
Sunday, October 09, 2022: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Speaker(s)
Description
You never know where a person will go sideways, it’s not just in acute psychiatric units, it’s everywhere else, including med/surg rooms, EDs and so forth. So, how do we “mind the gap”. The need to improve care for those suffering from adverse effects of co-occurring medical and psychiatric illness is a clinical imperative. Innovative solutions include the development of specialized acute care. Complexity intervention units, and ‘behavioral friendly rooms’ provide concurrent medical and psychiatric care in holistic, patient-centered ways. This presentation will compare two systems, Froedtert Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. Each will tell their story that will resonate with healthcare providers today.
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Learning Objectives
• Understand the rationale behind developing complexity intervention units (CIUs) and behavioral friendly (BH) rooms.
• Describe critical environmental and clinical considerations in designing complexity intervention units / behavioral friendly rooms.
• Compare CIUs with BH Friendly rooms with desired goals and outcomes.
• Explore how to evaluate design decisions based on balancing safety and the needs of the patient.
