Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital  (contact info)

Patient population includes clients from: the Manitoba border east to White River and north to Hudson's Bay

The following services are provided, you can click on each service to read more information about it:

• rehabilitation
• psychogeriatric inpatient programs
• community mental health services
• community geriatric psychiatry program
• chemical dependency treatment
• community support program
• assertive community treatment

In most cases, services are accessed through a doctor's referral.

All of the programs of the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital have been assessed by both undergraduate medical students as well as psychiatric residents. Case training in psychiatry along with family medicine is provided to Clinical Clerks from McMaster University. Elective rotations in psychiatry are provided to residents in the Family Medicine North Programme operated by Lakehead University, in particular the Community Mental Health Service is utilized to provide residents an opportunity to see a variety of individuals with psychiatric problems and offer experience in assessment and ongoing management of individuals.

Elective rotations ranging from one to three months, have involved psychiatric residents from the University of Ottawa, as well as McMaster University. In particular, the Community Geriatric Assessment Program has been utilized in this regard. As well, the Family Medicine Program from Queen's University has sent residents to take up to three month elective training at the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital.

For more information on Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital, please visit our website at:

www.sjcg.net/services/mentalhealth/lph/index.html

• Elective rotations have involved Psychiatric Residents from McMaster University

University of Ottawa
Department of Psychiatry

• in the past three years, several residents from the University of Ottawa have spent elective time at Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital.
• The Division of Forensic Psychiatry is developing a liaison with the Forensic Psychiatric Service in Thunder Bay

University of Western Ontario
Extended Campus Program
Department of Psychiatry

• Two psychiatrists have faculty affiliations with UWO. Dr. Jack Haggarty represents Extended Campus Program members on the UWO Department of Psychiatry Postgraduate Committee.