Adult Psychiatric Program Admission Criteria
One or more of the following must be present 100% of the time:
- The patient poses an actual or imminent danger to self, others and /or property due to the behavioral manifestations or a mental disorder.
- The patient needs continuous skilled observation and /or evaluation available only in a hospital.
- Due to a mental disorder, the patient is impaired to the degree that he/she manifests major disability in social and/or familial functioning, and this impairment cannot be managed in a less sensitive setting.
- The patient must reasonably be able to benefit from treatment by having a full scale IQ greater than 70.
- Absence of a severe medical condition requiring invasive medical techniques.
In addition to the above, the patient presents with one or more of the following prior to admission:
- The patient lacks a social support system to such a degree that indicated treatment is jeopardized.
- The failure of outpatient treatment and/or management has been verified.
- The inaccessibility of indicated outpatient treatment has been verified.
- The patient's condition can be expected to deteriorate with less intensive treatment.
- The patient manifests significantly impaired reality testing.
