Director - Mental Health Services

Phone: 684-6440
Fax: 684-7438

Adult Inpatient Unit

Phone: 684-6425
Fax: 346-8073
Coordinator: 684-6443

Admission Criteria

• 30 beds, average length of stay is 10 days.
• 16-64 years of age, exceptions made in certain cases.
• Serious and/or acute mental illness.
• Medically stable.
• Predominant problem is not related to a developmental handicap or an acquired brain injury.
• Individual in-patient psychological services with adolescents ages 13-18 admitted on the paediatric unit.
• Multidisciplinary Treatment Team includes:

Mental Health Assessment Team

• Adjunct service to the Emergency Department for assessment and consultation of people who present with mental health problems.
• Staffed by RNs, 24 hours each day
• Not a distinct program to which people are referred, but a resource for the ER staff.

Outpatient Service

Phone: 684-6430
Fax: 684-5870

• Medication clinics, e.g., mood stabilizers, clozaril, depot neuroleptics with physician referral.
• Psychiatry and psychology follow-up as required.

Assertive Community Treatment Teams

Location: 289 Munro Street, Thunder Bay, P7A 2N3

ACTION Team: 683-4355
PATH Team: 683-4355
ACT Coordinator: 683-4355
Intake Coordinator: 346-8300

• Community based intensive case management program.
• Focus is on providing rehabilitation, treatment and support to people with a serious mental illness.
• Based on principles of psychosocial rehabilitation.
• Physician referral not required.
• Two teams, with:

Community Treatment Order Service

Regional Coordinator: 684-6442
Case Manager: 684-6428
Fax: 684-5870

• A CTO Coordinator is available to provide education, consultation, support and advise about CTOs to physicians, families and agencies throughout the region.
• A case manager is available to provide community support for people on CTOs in Thunder Bay.

Community Mental Health Program

Fax: 684-5869

• Individual and group outpatient counselling, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and psychometric evaluation with adults (age 16 and over) with a serious mental illness.
• Staffed by psychology.
• Follows a brief model of psychotherapy focussed on current functioning difficulties.
• Physician referral not required.

Shared Mental Health Care Service

• Partnership with Fort William Family Health Network
• Two counsellors are available on-site to see patients referred by a clinic physician.
• Average of 4 sessions.
• Psychiatric consultation available.
• Targets mild to moderately ill in order to support the physician to continue to provide mental health care.

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