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Rehabilitation
Program:
The Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital Rehabilitation Program offers a variety of hospital
based mental health services to adults by providing assessment, treatment, education,
consultation and follow-up to clients who stiffer from a chronic psychiatric illness. Our
goal is to provide individuals with the opportunity to identify and develop the skills and
supports necessary to live life to their fullest potential.
The Rehabilitation Program uses a multidisciplinary team approach to client care. Our team
includes representation from psychiatry, medicine, nursing, psychology, recreation,
occupational therapy, vocational rehabilitation, social work and volunteers.
Our program objectives are to assist clients to:
- Gain insight into their illness;
- Regain the basic living skills that they may have lost;
- Access and acquire the supports they may need to live
successfully outside of the hospital;
- Develop and use coping techniques and resources that will
help them in their everyday lives.
The program features an inpatient component which consists of a 30 bed integrated male and
female unit specifically designed to meet the needs of Rehabilitation clients, which also
includes acquired brain injured individuals. Clients are admitted through the
Rehabilitation Outpatient service and are assessed prior to admission to determine
individual treatment and goals.
The outpatient component of the program provides individualized support for clients.
Outpatient nurses are available Monday to Friday to assess and assist clients. Clients may
receive their injectible medications from these nurses as well. Clinics are run by
rehabilitation physicians to ensure all clients are routinely seen and assessed. After
hours, inpatient nursing staff are available to assist clients in need of emergency care.
Psychoeducational programs are also offered by program staff, and include:
- Education for clients and family members about mental
illness;
- Basic living skills;
- Determining life-enhancing goals.
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