Clinical Services
Behavioral Health Services
The newly remodeled and redesigned 14-bed adult Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit serves patients ages 18 and older with acute symptoms of psychiatric illness or disorder that require a safe, therapeutic environment to support re-stabilization.
The Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit is a short-term care facility focused on stabilizing patients and re-integrating them back into the community, and with their families.
Services
The unit-based program provides education on illness, medication, individual therapy, group and family therapy, health and wellness, and coping skills to assist patients, and their families, in partnering with treatment providers to promote recovery.
Senior Behavioral Health Track
The Senior Behavioral Health Track is a specialized program track for senior patients suffering from exacerbation of their psychiatric disorders.
The Senior Behavioral Health track works to improve the functional skills and independence in elderly patients with behavioral disorders stemming from Alzheimers diseases or other forms of dementia and depression.
The senior patients are cared for by a trained interdisciplinary team of mental health professionals. Medical needs are evaluated and managed by Auburn Memorial Hospitalists on staff.
Admission
Patients are referred from a variety of sources, including Auburn Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Room, Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Program (C.P.E.P), other clinical departments within the hospital, community physicians, other facilities, self-referral, or by family members.
Patients are admitted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Upon admittance, each patient receives a complete assessment by a Board Certified Psychiatrist, Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Recreational Therapy Associate, and medical physician. These individuals, along with the patient and family, then develop an individualized patient treatment plan.
A member of the physician hospitalist service at Auburn Memorial Hospital evaluates all patients. The hospitalist will continue to monitor, manage, and treat any medical concerns. Consultation by other medical staff ie: Chaplain, dietitian, pharmacist, physical & occupational therapist, is available as needed.
The Unit Staffing is comprised of Psychiatric Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Patient Care Associates who provide a safe, therapeutic, and confidential environment, and conduct individualized counseling, educational groups, and activities. The Nurse Manager, along with medical leadership, oversees the continuous provision of safe, professional, and clinically appropriate care.
Discharge planning begins immediately to prepare the patient and family to move to a less restrictive level of care as soon as it is clinically safe to do so. Patients are generally referred to outpatient mental health providers within their residential area to provide for continuing treatment on an outpatient basis.
Facility
The Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit has been newly remodeled and designed and is now located on the 3rd floor of the hospital. It was redesigned by an architect that specialized in health care facilities. The large, semi-private rooms are complete with sinks and lavatories. The unit environmentally meets New York State Office of Mental Health standards.
Contact Information
We welcome inquires from individuals, families, physicians, healthcare providers, and community members!
Phone: 315-255-7366
Fax: 315-255-7498
Visiting Hours
Please call the unit to inquire about unit visiting hours and guidelines.
Staff
Dr. Elisabeth Mashinic
She is double board certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Adult Psychiatry. She completed her fellowship in child psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, and the State University of New York at Buffalo; her residency in psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, in general surgery at both Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens and New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens; and her residency in pathology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine.
Dr. Stanley T. Poreba
He is double board certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. He completed his postgraduate training in pathology at Metropolitan Hospital, New York, New York; in internal medicine at Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, New York, and psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center’s Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, New York, New York. He is a graduate of the Wroclaw Medical Academy in Wroclaw, Poland.
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