Full range of inpatient treatment at Silver Hill Hospital

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Silver Hill Hospital is a not-for-profit, nationally recognized, independent psychiatric hospital offering diagnosis and treatment for the full range of psychiatric illnesses and substance use disorders.

Because Silver Hill is a hospital and because Silver Hill can provide both inpatient and residential treatment; patients have the advantage of our unusually broad and comprehensive range of programs.

Patients who are acutely ill and who require intensive psychiatric and nursing supervision are treated in one of our adult or adolescent inpatient units. Treatments there tend to be medically oriented and the stay is typically short.
Patients who are ready for more psychological and behavioral interventions can be treated in our residential Transitional Living Programs, where there is more openness and the treatment course is longer.

The course of recovery from illness is highly variable and many patients move back and forth between the inpatient and Transitional Living Programs as the need arises. The smooth transition between levels of care, with the same hospital staff and on the same hospital campus, is another advantage of treatment at Silver Hill Hospital.

Still another advantage of treatment at Silver Hill Hospital is our unusual ability to treat dual disorders. Most patients who are hospitalized for either a psychiatric disorder or a substance use disorder have experienced the other at some time in their lives, and often together – the so-called dual disorders. At Silver Hill we have long experience and great expertise in both psychiatric and substance use disorders and our staff has the ability to recognize and treat both together.

Our ability to combine components of several programs or treatment modalities to suit the needs of a particular patient provides yet another advantage of treatment at Silver Hill. An individual patient’s program might include elements of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) directed toward emotional regulation, education about his/her psychiatric illness and its management, pharmacotherapy, behavioral skills training directed toward abstinence from a drug or alcohol and family work, to name just a few possible components.

A continuum of care is the hallmark of the Silver Hill experience. As our patients progress and move from one phase of treatment to another the transitions are seamless. At each transition the patient's Silver Hill psychiatrists, nurses and social workers communicate with each other freely, both directly and through a continuous, electronic medical record.