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Name of Ward

Description

# Beds

Adult Mental Health Unit (AMHU)

Provides voluntary and involuntary psychiatric care and treatment for people with a mental health illness who require hospitalisation. AMHU has a Low and High Dependency Unit (LDU and HDU). The units provide short term specialised acute clinical intervention, treatment and care for persons experiencing moderate to severe mental illness or mental dysfunction where less restrictive options have been deemed unsuitable or unavailable.

40

Mental Health Short Stay Unit (MHSSU)

Provides voluntary and involuntary psychiatric care and treatment for people with a mental health illness who require hospitalisation. The unit provides an opportunity for extended clinical observation, crisis stabilisation, mental health assessment and intervention for people admitted from the Emergency Department.

6

Ward 12B

The unit provides assessment, treatment, and therapeutic intervention for persons with mental health presentations requiring inpatient care with a lower risk of behavioural disturbance, vulnerability, or other issues than persons requiring the more restrictive environment of the AMHU HDU.

10

Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (AMHRU)

The purpose of a specialist mental health rehabilitation service is to deliver effective, interdisciplinary and recovery-based treatment and rehabilitation to people whose needs cannot be met by less intensive community based mental health services. The focus for an admission to AMHRU is on people with moderate to severe mental illness who face challenges living more independently in the community. Priority is given therefore to those who will benefit from rehabilitation services such as people exhibiting signs and symptoms of a First Episode Psychosis and people in the early stage of their illness.

20

Dhulwa Mental Health Unit (Dhulwa)

Dhulwa supports a person’s treatment, care and recovery by responding to the needs of people with moderate to severe mental illness who are or are likely to become involved with the criminal justice system and for those civilian people who cannot be treated in a less restrictive environment.

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Gawanggal Mental Health Unit (Gawanggal)

Gawanggal Mental Health Unit provides medium term, forensic, residential style care for consumers with complex and enduring mental health issues and who require assistance to transition into the community setting.

10