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Crisis Stabilization or Step Down Program
The Crisis Stabilization or Step Down Program provides 24-hour residential care that provides an alternative for clients to an inpatient hospital admission or a "step down" from a hospital inpatient program.
As an alternative: For clients who are experiencing an acute crisis, in which the goal is to prevent inpatient hospitalization.
As a step down: For clients who are ready for, or have recently been discharged from, an acute-care inpatient setting, but still need services that provide transition or re-entry into the community to limit or prevent hospital stay.
Program Goals:
- 3-5 day length of stay
- Alleviate immediate crisis
- Linkage to community support
Admission Criteria:
- DSM-IV Diagnosis
- The client admission is voluntary
- The client needs medication monitoring and/or adjustment
- Moderate rating level of suicidal ideation, gestures and/or behaviors
- Moderate rating of disruptive behavior towards others to include threats/planning of possible harm to others, but without prognosis of imminent danger or history indicating high risk probability for actualization of threats
- Disruptive to moderate rating level of psychotic behavioral episode when the client is exhibiting behavior that indicates an inability to regain control of his/her thought processes and can only do so with intensive management and/or prompting
- Moderate level of drug/alcohol ingestion/abuse, providing detoxification services are unavailable and client is medically cleared, when continued community placement would endanger the client’s welfare and/or community safety
- Other behaviors/events which may necessitate immediate removal of the client from the community environment in order to provide an environment more appropriate to his/her needs
Treatment:
- Psychiatric Assessment
- Nursing Assessment
- Individualized Treatment Plan
- Realistic Discharge Plan
- Medication Adjustment and/or Monitoring
Staff:
- Psychiatrist
- Registered Nurses
- Licensed and Master Level Social Workers
- Bachelor Level Mental Health Specialists