DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY LAS VEGAS: FACILITIES
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
University Medical Center is Southern Nevada’s major acute care, not-for-profit teaching hospital providing inpatient and outpatient health care services. The Medical Center is licensed for 508 beds as well as a free-standing Rehabilitation Unit of 34 beds. The hospital serves as the state’s major clinical campus, training doctors who someday will staff hospitals and clinics throughout the state. Because of its alliance with the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and other affiliated university programs, UMC is recognized as providing the most extensive and complete teaching programs for physicians and nurses in Southern Nevada. Residents spend two months in family practice, two months in neurology, one month in Internal Medicine, and one month in Emergency Medicine in PGY-1. In PGY-2, they spend three months on consult/liaison psychiatry. In PGY-4, they spend three months on an administrative rotation where they supervise the 2nd year resident on the consult/liaison service.
UMC LIED CLINIC
Lied Clinic is a part of the UMC outpatient facilities. It includes all medical specialties and is an opportunity for Residents to provide mental health services to Clark County social service patients. Lied Clinic focuses on continuity of care between primary care psychiatry and other medical specialties. Residents will begin rotating at the Lied Clinic in their PGY-3 year and will have the opportunity to follow the same patients for the remainder of their residency.
SOUTHERN NEVADA ADULT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
SNAMHS provides both outpatient and inpatient care. The outpatient facilities are scattered throughout Las Vegas. They focus on uninsured Nevada Residents and provide follow-ups for medication refills, depot shots, psychiatric assessments and psychotherapy. As a PGY-3 and PGY-4, you will spend 1-2 days per week at the assigned site providing continuity of care to your patient load.
The inpatient Rawson Neal Hospital is an 86-bed facility, providing acute short term and long term psychiatric inpatient treatment for adults with serious mental disorders that are uninsured residents of Nevada. Psychiatric emergency services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a 10-bed Observation Unit for people who may require extended evaluation. Outpatient counseling services are also provided to people in crisis or experiencing acute stress. The Medication Clinic provides outpatient adult psychiatric, nursing, and direct medication services, including prescribing and dispensing both injectable and oral medication. Other available programs: Psychosocial Rehabilitation - provides outpatient assistance to obtain and maintain quality of life through employment and consumer advocacy; Case Management – case managers support individuals in managing symptoms of their mental disorder as well as linking and referring them to appropriate community resources; Residential Programs – provide a range of community housing and assisted living options for individuals with serious mental disorder; C.A.U.S.E. – Consumers Against Unfair Stigma Through Education, a non-profit consumer run organization providing support and advocacy for people with mental disorders. Residents spend six months on Inpatient Adult Psychiatry during PGY-1. PGY-2 residents will spend 3 month in the Psychiatry Emergency Unit.
V.A. SOUTHERN NEVADA HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
The Mental Health Service Line/Psychiatry Service (MHSL/PS) of the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System (VASNHCS) consists of the following program components: Mental Health Clinic (Outpatient Services), Arville House Day Treatment Center, Alcohol Dependence Treatment Program (ADTP), the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit 3F at The Mike O’Callaghan Federal Hospital, Community Based Outreach Clinic for Homeless Veterans, and the Chaplain Service. Linkage is also maintained with the Veterans Outreach Center. Services provided by these programs include but are not limited to: diagnostic services, treatment, consultations, rehabilitation, referrals, and other dispositions. There is an adequate number of qualified staff, appropriate facilities and equipment to enable eligible veterans to receive the necessary and appropriate level of care. 5% of the patient population is WWII cohort, 5% from the Korean War, 5% post-Korean, 15% from Vietnam, 20% Vietnam Era, 30% post-Vietnam, 10% first Gulf War, 5% post-Gulf War (first), and 5% Iraq/Afghanistan. Women veterans comprise 7% of the patient population enrolled in Mental Health Programs. Residents spend three months on Inpatient Adult Psychiatry during PGY-2 and 50% of their time in PGY-3 outpatient clinics.
ADELSON CLINIC
The Adelson Clinic is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to treating the disease of opiate addiction by providing methadone treatment and counseling services. This is a program where 4th year residents gain experience treating these patients with severe opiate dependence.
DESERT WILLOW TREATMENT CENTER
Residents perform a two month child psychiatry rotation during their second year at Desert Willow Treatment Center. This facility is a 58 bed state psychiatric hospital providing mental health services to children and adolescents with psychiatric disturbances. It is comprised of five service units that serve children and adolescents 6 through 18 years of age. Residents will encounter addiction as well as traditional Axis I disorders.
