All Clinical Services are
under the supervision of the Clinical Director. Each client
unit is under the supervision of a Unit Director or Nurse
Manager who is responsible for the overall administrative
operations and services of the unit supervised. They are
clinically trained individuals who have extensive experience
in psychiatric hospital operations. Their responsibilities
include coordinating programs and activities, providing
input to clinical discipline chiefs on the procedures and
protocols, team representation, ensuring all policies and
procedures of the hospital are accomplished appropriately,
and reviewing/correcting environment of care needs.
The clinical disciplines of
Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Social
Work, and Activity Therapy have Discipline Chiefs who
employ, privilege, assign and supervise professionals in
their respective disciplines. They are also responsible for
implementing performance improvement programs for
professionals in their disciplines. This includes
determining the clinical competence of professionals,
developing and assigning training that ensures maintenance
of skills and supervision of the professional performance of
the practitioners in their disciplines. These
responsibilities are performed through direct observation
and interviews and using data from thorough reviews of
medical records and other documentation that reflects each
practitioner’s performance.
Each unit has one or more
attending physicians who direct medical services for the
unit and direct the treatment planning process. Medical
specialties include psychiatry and internal medical. Each
unit also has professional and paraprofessional staff in
nursing, social work, and psychology. The Activity Therapy
Department serves all units.