Psychiatric facility definition

Psychiatric facility means a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit licensed under section 134.
Psychiatric facility means a licensed institution that provides Mental Illness treatment and which provides for a psychiatrist who has regularly scheduled hours in the facility, and who assumes the overall responsibility for coordinating the care of all patients.
Psychiatric facility means a special care unit or freestanding facility that is licensed as such by duly constituted state authority and that provides psychiatric service for the diagnosis and Treatment of mental illness on a 24 hour basis by or under the supervision of a licensed physician and other appropriate licensed medical staff (e.g. RN, MSW, Psychologist).

Examples of Psychiatric facility in a sentence

  • Opening of new Acute Forensic Psychiatric facility in a timely manner.

  • In addition, DBH operates Saint Elizabeths Hospital (SEH), the District’s adult inpatient Psychiatric facility which is comprised of approximately 60 % forensic and 40% civil clients.


More Definitions of Psychiatric facility

Psychiatric facility means a State psychiatric hospital listed in
Psychiatric facility means a State psychiatric hospital listed in R.S.30:1-7, a county psychiatric hospital, or a psychiatric unit of a county hospital.
Psychiatric facility means a crisis stabilization unit or any facility licensed by the cabinet and which provides inpatient, outpatient, psychosocial rehabilitation, emergency, and consultation and education services for the diagnosis and treatment of persons who have a mental illness;
Psychiatric facility means a public or private facility licensed pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 122C of the General Statutes and which is primarily engaged in providing to inpatients, by or under the supervision of a physician, psychiatric services for the diagnosis and treatment of mentally ill persons.
Psychiatric facility means an institution which is not a hospital and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), to provide inpatient psychiatric services under the direction of a physician to clients who are under the age of twenty-one or age sixty-five or over, and meets specific conditions contained at 42 CFR, Part 435, section 435.1009.
Psychiatric facility means a crisis stabilization unit or any facility licensed by
Psychiatric facility means a State psychiatric facility listed in