Southlake Regional Health Centre is a full-service hospital with a regional, clinically advanced focus.
Southlake offers 426 patient beds and accommodates more than 113,000 visits to the Emergency Department, 24,000 in-patient admissions, and 530,000 out-patient visits each year. As a regionally designated site, Southlake is responsible for developing and providing advanced levels of care to the more than 1 million people who reside in York Region, Simcoe County, and in some cases, as far north as Muskoka.
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Services Offered
Adult Mental Health Services * Adult Crisis Program - This program provides 24-hour coverage to the Emergency Department and provides assessment, short-term crisis counselling and referrals to community agencies to clients who are 18 years of age or older. In addition, this service includes assessment and consultation in in-patient units and family physicians.
* Brief Therapy Clinic - This out-patient program is designed for clients who have been diagnosed with a major psychiatric illness. The program offers individual and group assessment and treatment through short and medium term therapy sessions. A physician's referral is required.
* Community Treatment Order (CTO) - A community treatment order is an alternative form of treatment for people with serious mental illness. It is funded though the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and is sponsored by Southlake Regional Health Centre. This form of treatment allows the patient to continue living in the community while receiving support and treatment specified in a plan that the client, family and clinicians prepare together. The focus of the Community Treatment Order is to keep the individual in the community and reduce the amount of time he/she spends at the Hospital.
* In-Patient Mental Health Unit - Southlake's In-patient Mental Health Unit provides short term assessment, stabilization, and symptom reduction to individuals with mental health issues. The unit is a safe, secure setting where patients are encouraged to participate in individual and group activities.
* Psychogeriatric Assertive Community Treatment Team (PACTT) - The objective of PACTT is to provide services for people over the age of 55 with severe mental illness who live in York Region.
* Recovery and Wellness Day Program - The Recovery and Wellness Day Program is one of several mental health services offered at Southlake on an out-patient basis. In group settings, clients rediscover their strengths and learn to build healthy coping skills. They learn to set goals, problem solve, manage stress, and how to access community resources. Participation in group sessions enables clients to realize that people share similar problems and are able to help each other understand and find solutions to those problems.
* Schizophrenia Program - This out-patient program is designed to provide assessment and treatment planning for individual's living with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. The Schizophrenia Program includes individual, group and family education, as well as medicine administration and monitoring.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services * Child and Family Clinic for Specialized Mental Health Services - The Child and Family Clinic is a regional out-patient service for children up to 18 years of age who live in York Region. Referrals from physicians and secondary service providers (with the knowledge and agreement of their family physician) are accepted for children and adolescents with severe mental health difficulties and their families.
The Child and Family Clinic provides psychiatric assessments for all referrals followed by intensive psychotherapy services for patients based on those psychiatric consultations.
* Child and Adolescent In-Patient Unit - The Child and Adolescent In-Patient Unit consists of 7 secure beds dedicated to children and adolescents under the age of 18 who live anywhere in York Region. The focus of the unit is short-term assessment and crisis stabilization for children and adolescents presenting with severe and acute mental health disorders.
* Day Hospital Program - The Day Hospital Program serves youth from 14 to 18 years of age who live in York Region. The program provides services for clients with severe psychiatric disorders which are hindering their ability to function in certain areas of their life.
* Disruptive Behaviours Program - The Disruptive Behaviours Program is an out-patient program that serves children and adolescents between six and 18 years of age living in York Region. Types of problems addressed include moderate to severe disruptive behaviours, oppositional defiance, explosiveness, and early conduct problems. Services provided are short-term, strength-based and solution-focused. Treatment options include consultative assessment, pharmacotherapy, and brief intensive psychosocial treatment.
* Urgent Clinic - The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Department provides some short-term crisis intervention services (maximum of 4 sessions) for clients who have presented in a mental health crisis to the Emergency Department and require follow-up outpatient services.
Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders Program Our family-oriented treatment team respects each client's individuality and well-being, and encourages them to actively participate in their own growth and recovery. Treatment is designed to be collaborative rather than imposed, interactive rather than passive, and personal rather than distant or neutral. Our program fosters our clients' reconnection with their feelings and helps them listen to their bodies. Our staff encourages self-awareness, self-understanding and self-compassion.
For those clients who are able to manage and function sufficiently well in the community, services offered may include one or more of the following: * individual therapy * family therapy * nutritional counselling * psycho-education classes for families * parent support group, and/or * therapeutic groups for adolescents.
* Day Treatment Program - For those clients who find it difficult to manage their eating disorder symptoms without more intensive support, our Day Treatment Program may be more appropriate. Clients participate in a half-day of schooling in a specialized care and treatment class room in the morning (our teacher is provided by the York Region District School Board) and a half-day of therapy in the afternoon, which may include group therapy, individual or family therapy.
Young Adult Eating Disorders Program Southlake Regional Health Centre's Young Adult Eating Disorders Program provides out-patient treatment to young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 living in York Region and South Simcoe County. The program serves to meet the needs of individuals who transition from the Child & Adolescent Eating Disorders Program, as well as community members referred directly by their family physician. The program provides services to individuals and families affected by anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or eating disorders not otherwise specified.
Fees and Payment
Services are covered by OHIP.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Pro-bono
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