Behavioral health services include:
Inpatient Elder Behavioral Health Services (EBHS)
Morton Hospital’s EBHS Unit provides a multidisciplinary, integrative approach for treating older adults – age 55 and over – with behavioral, psychiatric, or neuropsychiatric difficulties that require hospitalization. EBHS is a secure, 14-bed inpatient psychiatric program that offers rapid assessment and focused intervention in a short-term setting. Morton offers a comforting, structured environment with daily programming and the highest quality of service and professionalism in order to help patients achieve a maximum level of functioning and life satisfaction. Therapy services include:
- Therapeutic and healing touch (hand massage, back and shoulder massage)
- Aromatherapy
- Energy therapy
- Music
- Other holistic methods of care
Psychiatric Consultative Services
Our EBHS team also provides psychiatric consultation services for hospital patients. Consultation to the intensive care, medical, surgical, maternity and rehabilitation units can be initiated upon the request of the patient’s attending physician. Indications for a specialty consult include:
- Unremitting depression
- Psychosis
- Threats to harm self or others
- Agitation
- Confusion
- Mania
- Other acute changes in patient behavior
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