This continuum enables the Center to offer the patient the appropriate services, at the appropriate time, at the appropriate level of intensity in the most cost efficient and effective manor. The patient is determined to be manageable in outpatient treatment alone, so as to require the protected observation and coordinated therapeutic resources of an active partial hospitalization program. Patient is actively suicidal, requiring physical restraint and very close, intense staff supervision. Patient is severely assaultive, requiring a locked unit on a 24 hour per day basis. Patient is severely disorganized, so as to render him or her a significant danger to self.
Patient is severely impulsive in destructive ways.
Patient has uncontrolled alcohol of substance abuse. Patient is actively and significantly psychotic.