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This is from page 104 of "textbook of Hospital Psychiatry where the current director has written the guidelines they use on there unit.
It reads as follows
Admissions to the TDU must be referred by a treating mental health professional. The Admissions Coordinator reviews an extensive questionnaire submitted by the referring clinician and discusses the prospective patient with the clinician. Then all potential admissions are reviewed with an attending psychiatrist for suitability for TDU admission., including medical necessity criteria for inpatient level of care. Currently, the TDU accepts both male and female patients, ages 18-65, with a history of psychological trauma. Male patients are screened carefully for their ability to manage in, and not be disruptive to, a mostly female hospital milieu. Given the realities of modern hospital reimbursement, most admissions must meet inpatient "medical necessity" criteria: imminent dangerousness to self or others and/or a catastrophic inability to function due to disabling, post traumatic and/or dissociative symptoms.
Because patients must be motivated to participate actively in a demanding treatment program, we generally do not accept involuntary patients or court-mandated treatment. Trauma patients with extensive histories of perpetrating childhood abuse, violence towards others, or sexual assaults or with significant antisocial personality features usually are excluded due to their potential negative impact on the TDU milieu and the difficulty in treating these problems in a milieu focused on recovery for abuse survivors. Not uncommonly, however, previously unknown histories of perpetrating child abuse or violence are revealed during TDU hospitalization.
Patients admitted to the TDU must be medically stable. Psychotic and/or manic patients are excluded because of the potential disruption to the TDU milieu and difficulty participating in the treatment program. It has been our experience that patients with severe substance and/or alcohol abuse or dependence usually do not respond to the treatment milieu of the TDU until they have achieved sobriety and are motivated to maintain recovery. It goes on more about substance abuse not worth repeating. But is followed by: because we do not have the resources to provide intensive specialized eating disorders treatment during a TDU stay, trauma patients with histories of eating disorders can be admitted only when sufficiently stabilized to manage their eating disorder symptoms.
Unlike what they say on SVU: they get to pick the vic. They get to choose the easy patients, it would seem that anyone who is too damaged they won't help. Kind of goes against being on of the best units around when you take into consideration they don't help those who have too much abuse history or problems from it.
This is from page 104 of "textbook of Hospital Psychiatry where the current director has written the guidelines they use on there unit.
It reads as follows
Admissions to the TDU must be referred by a treating mental health professional. The Admissions Coordinator reviews an extensive questionnaire submitted by the referring clinician and discusses the prospective patient with the clinician. Then all potential admissions are reviewed with an attending psychiatrist for suitability for TDU admission., including medical necessity criteria for inpatient level of care. Currently, the TDU accepts both male and female patients, ages 18-65, with a history of psychological trauma. Male patients are screened carefully for their ability to manage in, and not be disruptive to, a mostly female hospital milieu. Given the realities of modern hospital reimbursement, most admissions must meet inpatient "medical necessity" criteria: imminent dangerousness to self or others and/or a catastrophic inability to function due to disabling, post traumatic and/or dissociative symptoms.
Because patients must be motivated to participate actively in a demanding treatment program, we generally do not accept involuntary patients or court-mandated treatment. Trauma patients with extensive histories of perpetrating childhood abuse, violence towards others, or sexual assaults or with significant antisocial personality features usually are excluded due to their potential negative impact on the TDU milieu and the difficulty in treating these problems in a milieu focused on recovery for abuse survivors. Not uncommonly, however, previously unknown histories of perpetrating child abuse or violence are revealed during TDU hospitalization.
Patients admitted to the TDU must be medically stable. Psychotic and/or manic patients are excluded because of the potential disruption to the TDU milieu and difficulty participating in the treatment program. It has been our experience that patients with severe substance and/or alcohol abuse or dependence usually do not respond to the treatment milieu of the TDU until they have achieved sobriety and are motivated to maintain recovery. It goes on more about substance abuse not worth repeating. But is followed by: because we do not have the resources to provide intensive specialized eating disorders treatment during a TDU stay, trauma patients with histories of eating disorders can be admitted only when sufficiently stabilized to manage their eating disorder symptoms.
Unlike what they say on SVU: they get to pick the vic. They get to choose the easy patients, it would seem that anyone who is too damaged they won't help. Kind of goes against being on of the best units around when you take into consideration they don't help those who have too much abuse history or problems from it.