Bronx Psychiatric Center
1500 Waters Place
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 931-0600
Fax: (718) 826-4858
E-Mail: Bronx Psychiatric Center
About Bronx Psychiatric Center
Bronx Psychiatric Center is a 360-bed facility located in the Northeast Bronx. It is accredited by the Joint Commission on Healthcare Organizations and is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Bronx Psychiatric Center has three inpatient services and a comprehensive outpatient program.
Inpatient Services Overview
- Intensive Treatment Stabilization Unit
- Bilingual Services
- Intensive Diagnostic and Treatment Unit
- Community Skills Services
Community Services Overview
- Transitional Living Residence
- Ginsburg Outpatient Clinic
- Comcare Continuing Day Treatment and MICA Program
- Drop-In Center
- Family Care Program
- Intensive Case Management Program
General Information
Inpatient Services Overview
Bronx Psychiatric Center provides inpatient stabilization programs for the following major populations. The full range of inpatient services required by individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse disorders is provided throughout the facility.
Intensive Treatment and Stabilization Unit
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Admissions Wards 5 and 7:
The mission of the two Admission Wards (5,7) is the rapid stabilization of newly admitted patients. Treatment services offered include psycho education, individual and group therapy, psychopharmacology, and skills training. The Discharge Planning Unit is closely integrated with the Admission Service in order to expedite appropriate discharge planning and to provide case management follow-up services. Specialized training is also provided via the SPECTRM project that provides training related to the treatment of patients with forensic histories. -
Stepdown Ward 2:
Ward 2 serves as a primary receiving ward for clients from Wards 5 and 7, who either require further clinical work for stabilization, or intensive rehabilitative work to prepare them to reintegrate back into the community. The program focuses on structured group programming to develop social skills, increased symptom awareness, and enhancement of community living skills.
Bilingual Services Wards 9 and 11:
Wards 9 and 11 are designed to serve Spanish speaking patients: Programs are geared to the psychiatric and cultural needs of the Hispanic patient and their families. Staff are fluent in the language and customs of the Hispanic and Latin American Countries. These variables are fully integrated in the provision of treatment and other services and closely embraces family and friends in programs and cultural events.
Intensive Diagnostic and Treatment Unit
Unit Description: This unit is designed to provide an integrated, state-of-the-art system of evaluation and intervention for individuals whose current treatment approaches appear to have been unsuccessful. The unit also serves as a focal point for the hospital's Safe and Therapeutic Environment program.
The Intensive Diagnostic and Treatment Unit (IDT), is a 30-bed multifaceted program whose services include an intensive evaluation process to identify specifically targeted obstacles to: psychiatric stabilization, maintenance of functional stability, and skill acquisition.
Consultation Services to the facility include assessments and recommendations regarding diagnosis and treatment approaches for individuals whose behaviors interfere/seriously disrupt the treatment environment for themselves or others, undermine an ability for stable functioning, and are refractory to current treatment approaches. Consultations for individuals and wards are determined by the following processes:
- A proactive basis, from data provided in morning reports, administrative rounds, trauma assessment, and/or NIMRS pattern analyses.
- A reactive basis, from data collected by the post-vention process, and following any serious incident which necessitate the transfer of a patient from his/her assigned ward.
- Analysis of data from trauma intervention services.
Community Skills Services
To meet the habitation and rehabilitation needs of psychiatric patients, a continuum of structured activities and services is provided with focuses on the remittance of behavioral deficits utilizing the patient's strengths. This habitation/rehabilitation process empowers patients to control and manage their own lives through the judicious use of individual choices that promote a positive self-image.
A variety of treatment modalities are available to patients and these modalities are prescribed in accordance with the physical, emotional, and social needs of the individual patient, his/her stated treatment goals, and reflective of their different religious and cultural backgrounds.
Community Service Overview
Transitional Living Residence
The Bronx Psychiatric Center Transitional Living Residence provides short term residential care and treatment for consumers who are clinically stable but who require additional support and assistance before discharge to other more independent community residences.
The major goal of the TLR is to facilitate access to off-ground community providers beds for individuals with more challenging histories (i.e. forensic, arson, substance abuse) by providing an opportunity to establish a a successful track record by demonstrating a commitment and ability to comply with providers requirements.
Ginsburg Outpatient Clinic
The clinic is a treatment program designed to help individuals reduce symptoms and/or change specific problematic behaviors, and to promote the attainment of health-related, psycho social, and rehabilitative goals identified as important to each client. Outcomes of clinic treatment will include reduction of symptoms or problematic behaviors, increased community tenure, and increased function and self-esteem. The program is accessible to people with severe and complex mental illness who do not want or do not need to use other forms of service; the clinic also serves individuals with less debilitating or chronic problems.
The clinic offers services by regular appointment schedules, which can range in frequency from monthly to weekly visits, based on an individual's assessed need and condition. Emergency appointments for crisis intervention are also provided. Individual, supportive groups, and family counseling and therapy are offered to clients.
Comcare Continuing Day Treatment and MICA Program
The Continuing Day Treatment/MICA Program provides a multifaceted range of services for chronically mentally ill individuals with and without the complicating problem of alcohol/substance abuse. The Continuing Treatment component of the program includes group, individual and family counseling, medication treatment, crisis intervention services, discussion and activity groups, case management, support, and self-help empowerment services. The emphasis is on the development of communication and daily living skills that support clients' ability to live in the community, the prevention of relapse and possible re-hospitalization, and - where possible - the fostering of vocational/rehabilitative objectives and skills.
The MICA component of the program is designed to help clients whose lives are undermined by a combination of mental illness and substance abuse to achieve sobriety/abstinence, build self-esteem, review their goals and options, and maintain a more stable, self-reliant level of functioning in the community. For both MICA and non-MICA clients, set-backs and relapses are viewed as part of the recovery process; clients affected by such events are encouraged to re-focus and align themselves with the recovery process. The MICA component of the program offers access to the services and activities described above; additionally, specific services for substance abuse are available. These include daily acupuncture, recovery groups, a peer-led Double Trouble group, and urine screening.
Drop-In Center
The Drop-In Center is a multi-service program that utilizes a combination of supportive and educational groups, individual counseling, self-help activity groups, and community trips to provide a supportive milieu to assist individuals in the process of recovery from the effects of chronic mental illness. Prevention of decompensation and re-hospitalization, assistance in handling crises and maintaining supports needed for independent living in the community, and the development of skills needed to live, learn, work, and engage in recreation as independently as possible, are major aspects of the program. Treatment services are based on assessment of individuals' needs, values, abilities, goals, and history of mental health problems, in consultation with referring inpatient treatment teams, the client, and available family and/or collateral support figures as appropriate.
Family Care Program
Bronx Psychiatric Center's Family Care Program is a residential program that uses certified Family Care homes to provide care for residents who do not require treatment or inpatient units, but who are unable to function adequately on their own in a community independent living setting.
Intensive Case Management Program
The Bronx Psychiatric Center Intensive Case Management Program (ICM) is designed to provide severely and persistently mentally ill individuals residing in the community assistance in navigating and negotiating complex systems of care and entitlements. The goal of the ICM Program aligns with that of its clients: assessment and maintenance of services necessary to support a level of functioning that promotes stability and tenure of life in the community. These services may include medical, social, psychosocial, educational, financial, residential placement, and psychiatric treatment. Individualized goals for clients receiving ICM Services should focus on the enhancement of strengths, an increase in the repertoire of social, emotional, and vocational skills, and improvement in their overall functional level.
Public Transportation
New York City subway #6 local to Middletown Road station. New York City bus line B21
Area Served
Bronx County, NY