Upstate to create eight-bed unit for adolescent psychiatric patients

Upstate University Hospital will Upstate University Hospital will
open an eight-bed inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit open an
eight-bed inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit in early 2019. That
was one recommendation from a Youth Mental Health Task Force, says
in early 2019. That was one recommendation from a Youth Mental
Health Task Force, says Wanda Fremont, MD, Wanda Fremont, MD, left,
Upstate's chief of child psychiatry and medical director of its
left, Upstate's chief of child psychiatry and medical director of
its Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic. Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Clinic. She says the new unit will have eight private
rooms, plus a lounge and visiting area, for patients 12 to 17 years
old. Patients will be admitted through the emergency department for
hospital stays of five to seven days. Fremont says officials
continue to work with community partners on some of the other
recommendations to improve mental health services for young people
in Central New York. She says the new unit will have eight private
rooms, plus a lounge and visiting area, for patients 12 to 17 years
old. Patients will be admitted through the emergency department for
hospital stays of five to seven days. Fremont says officials
continue to work with community partners on some of the other
recommendations to improve mental health services for young people
in Central New York.