The Geropsychiatric Center at Northwest Hospital provides a caring, supportive environment on two distinct inpatient units where each patient participates in a treatment program individually designed to meet his or her needs.

Patients eligible for Inpatient Services usually experience several of the following symptoms:

• Attempts or threats of suicide
• Loss of interest in regular activities
• Changes in sleeping patterns
• Confusion, disorientation, memory changes
• Inability to care for self or home
• Abrupt changes in behavior
• Isolation and withdrawal from friends and family
• Inability to concentrate, sudden decrease in intellectual functioning
• Expresses feelings of helplessness and/or hopelessness
• Seeing or hearing things that no one else sees or hears
• Impaired understanding of reality
• Abuse of drugs, medications or alcohol
• Difficulty with impulse control
• Decrease in energy level
• Increased or decreased appetite
• Uncharacteristic anger, irritability or agitation
• Extended and extreme grief over a loss

Through a structured treatment plan of individual counseling, group therapy, medication management, activities, family education, and support, patients are given the opportunity to improve their social, physical, and emotional functioning.

East Wing Highlights

• Designed for patients with moderate to severe memory problems.
• Secured 15-bed Unit.
• Focused on eliminating/reducing psychotic or behavioral problems.
• Lower stimulation with nursing station adjacent to unit.
• Maximizes current cognitive abilities based on positive memories/past successes.
• Large activity rooms to meet motor needs of population.

West Wing Highlights

• Designed for patients with minimal to no memory impairment.
• Focused on stabilization of emergent symptoms, medication management, and discharge planning.
• 12-bed Unit.