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St. Joseph's Health Care - Based Services
Mental Health Consultation and Evaluation in Primary-care (MHCEP)
MHCEP is a joint initiative, co-located
at family practice sites, which provides collaborative primary-based
care to clients in Middlesex County who are at risk of becoming
increasingly ill. The MHCEP team responds to referrals from the sites’
primary care physicians for consultation, education or training. The
preventative and on-site treatment interventions of MHCEP should avert
clients’ need to access crisis, urgent, emergent or hospital admission,
thereby, building system capacity. The emphasis is on short-term care
with individuals and families to promote accessibility and minimal wait
time for the service. This last academic year the program came under the
direction of Dr. Aleksandra Nowicki.
Operational Stress Injury (OSI)
Clinic
Located at the Parkwood Hospital site,
the OSI Clinic is part of a national network of ten OSI outpatient
clinics funded by Veterans Affairs Canada. The OSI clinic provides
specialized mental health services to veterans, members of the Canadian
Forces (regular and reserve), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),
and their families with service related psychological/psychiatric
illness. The clinic serves a very large catchment area, including all of
Southwest and Northwest Ontario, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and the
area around Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay including the city of Barrie.
The specialized team of psychiatrists,
psychologists, mental health nurses, and social workers provides
comprehensive assessment and treatment in collaboration with community
providers. The clinic is also involved in providing education, outreach
and research. Currently, there are two psychiatrists Dr. Don Richardson
and Dr. David Haslam who work predominantly with younger veterans, and
Dr. Harris who provides psychiatric consultation services to the older
Korean and World War II veterans.
Current goals include continuing
research in the area of posttraumatic stress disorder and other
operational stress injury, enhancing services to the community through
the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), supporting the outreach
initiative to the GTA and further developing training opportunity for
residents and psychiatrist interested in veterans’ mental health.
Additional information is available on
the SJHC website.
http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca/parkwood/programs/osi/index.htm
Program Leader: Dr. J. Donald
Richardson
Email: Don.Richardson@sjhc.london.on.ca
Phone: 519-685-4000, ext. 42388
Location: SJHC - Parkwood Hospital
