Saratoga Hospital Mental Health Unit

Saratoga Hospital Mental Health Unit

Services:
Age Groups Accepted
• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults

Ancillary Services

• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Illness management and recovery
• Integrated primary care services
• Family psychoeducation
• Case management service
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment
• Medicare
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Private health insurance

Testing

• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Laboratory testing
• STD testing
• HIV testing
• TB screening
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Local, county, or community government

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Group therapy
• Activity therapy

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

• Haloperidol
• Asenapine
• Olanzapine
• Perphenazine
• Nicotine replacement
• Risperidone
• Paliperidone
• Quetiapine
• Clozapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Brexpiprazole
• Ziprasidone
• Lurasidone
• Chlorpromazine
• Fluphenazine
• Aripiprazole
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted