Adult Psychiatry Residency: The Campus and Core Teaching Facilities
The Institute of Living’s gracious 35-acre campus is located just south of
downtown Hartford and the state capital, and just a few blocks east of Trinity
College. The Institute’s campus is part of a larger medical complex that also
includes Hartford Hospital and the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
(CCMC).
In recent years, the completion of several multimillion-dollar revitalization
projects has enhanced the vitality of the surrounding neighborhood. These
projects include the creation of the 16-acre Learning Corridor, a complex of
magnet schools and academies that opened in fall 2000. Much of the
revitalization effort has been spearheaded by the Southside Institutions
Neighborhood Alliance (SINA), an organization in which The Institute, Hartford
Hospital, and CCMC are leading members.
The core clinical facilities for psychiatry include:
The Institute provides a full range of psychiatric services. It has three
general adult locked inpatient units, some of which provide specialized services
to patients from the day treatment programs. It also has a child and adolescent
inpatient unit and a geriatric inpatient unit with a dementia treatment section.
Partial hospital programs include the General Adult Program, the Geriatric
Program, the Addiction
Recovery Service, the
Professionals Program, the Eating Disorders Program, and the
Schizophrenia Rehabilitation Program. The Child & Adolescent Program
provides a full range of services, including inpatient, partial hospital, and
outpatient. There are primary, middle, and secondary schools on grounds that
provide education in collaboration with treatment services.
The Outpatient Department provides general adult care as well as special
services for anxiety disorders and schizophrenia, geriatric care, couples
and family treatment, forensic consultation, and the treatment of sexual disorders.
The 850-bed Hartford Hospital is the largest general hospital in the state of
Connecticut and a regular recipient of national awards for excellence. It is a
major tertiary care and community health care center, serving a state-wide
patient population and providing a wide range of services. Hartford Hospital is
a major affiliated training site in psychiatry, as it is in medicine, surgery,
pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology and neurology. The hospital’s Department of Psychiatry
includes an extensive Consultation/Liaison Program, a busy Emergency
Psychiatry Service, a Crisis Intervention Service, and consultation to the
Ambulatory Internal Medicine and HIV Centers.
A full-service pediatric hospital, CCMC provides preventive programs, acute
care, and chronic and rehabilitative services in a facility designed exclusively
for children. It is an academic center that combines patient care, research, and
teaching, and provides in-depth backup to pediatricians and pediatric units in
the region’s general hospitals. CCMC comprises a 24-hour pediatric emergency
department; a cancer center; a general medical, general surgical and specialty surgical
program; an orthopedic division; rehabilitation services; and a full spectrum of
outpatient services.
The Department of Psychiatry at CCMC is part of The
Institute of Living/Hartford
Hospital and is responsible for providing the onsite
consultation/liaison services to the inpatient, subspecialty outpatient
services, and to the emergency department.
Capitol Region Mental Health Center
This large, inner-city mental health clinic is located approximately seven
miles from The Institute of Living campus, in Hartford’s North End. The
Capitol Region Mental Health Center (CRMHC) is the primary mental health agency for
Greater Hartford, providing an array of innovative mental health services to
individuals who suffer from persistent and severe mental illness.
The center primarily serves Hartford residents, but also provides care to
residents who live in surrounding towns and cannot obtain services locally. CRMHC offers
mobile crisis and evaluation services, centralized intake and diagnostics,
in-home specialty respite care, acute day treatment, homeless outreach and
clinical treatment, a rehabilitation-oriented day program, specialized day
treatment services for those who speak Spanish only, assertive employment,
specialized assessment, and treatment services for clients of the city’s
general assistance program. Many CRMHC patients continue in The Institute of
Living's General Adult
Day Treatment Program. Some receive specialized care in the Schizophrenia
Rehabilitation Program at The Institute of Living or live on site in the Todd Residential House.
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