"Investment in mental health do not by high-tech devices, but by an environment adequate care and security and a team that made the journey towards restoring customer."
The Director General and Director of Professional Services Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Dr. Maurice Roy, said that the rearrangement of units mental health is part of extensive redevelopment project and expansion of the Hotel -God $ 112 million.
The four units of the 7th to the 10th floor of the Hotel-Dieu CHUS have undergone major renovations from the inside at the height of investments of $ 4.5 million, either in full budgetary targets.
From Monday, the latest mental health patients will be transferred to the care for affective disorders on the 10th floor to complete this vast redevelopment. Psychotic disorders (9th), the intensive rehabilitation (8th) as well as forensic psychiatry and intensive approaches (7th) had been renovations in recent months.
"The living units have been refurbished in order to promote interventions to prepare the customer to return to their living environment. The premises were not adapted to accommodate units therapeutic mental health. We needed places suitable methods of treatment. (...) The physical adjustments in connection with the reorganization of services in partnership with stakeholders, "said chief medical customer care program in mental health, psychiatrist Dr. Pierre Beauséjour, who recalls that these units represent 30 per cent of care activities at CHUS Hotel-Dieu.
"These units mental health provide a more adequate and better working environment. There is more space and privacy for customers and more security for staff and doctors, "said Chairman of the Board of CHUS, Jacques Fortier.
Fewer beds per room
A major redevelopment is that the rooms three or four beds have been replaced by private rooms and semi-private.
"We have created a conducive environment by offering more privacy for patients. The breakdown has been repaired and safety aspects have been improved. Each room now allows seats or stretchers to enter or leave. It will be easier to respond in emergencies physics, "says Dr Beauséjour.
"These are places that will offer one more chance. The human factor is very important, "said chief clinical and administrative Alain Dumais.
The number of beds floors of the four doomed to mental health care remains the same at 105. The average stay of those clients is about 20 to 22 days.
Units of mental health care in 1300 represent hospitalizations per year and more than 4,000 outpatients. Some 200 staff and 23 psychiatrists working with this clientele.
The consultation offices and outpatient clinics in mental health are also the subject of major renovations which continue until 2010.
The Director General and Director of Professional Services Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Dr. Maurice Roy, said that the rearrangement of units mental health is part of extensive redevelopment project and expansion of the Hotel -God $ 112 million.
The four units of the 7th to the 10th floor of the Hotel-Dieu CHUS have undergone major renovations from the inside at the height of investments of $ 4.5 million, either in full budgetary targets.
From Monday, the latest mental health patients will be transferred to the care for affective disorders on the 10th floor to complete this vast redevelopment. Psychotic disorders (9th), the intensive rehabilitation (8th) as well as forensic psychiatry and intensive approaches (7th) had been renovations in recent months.
"The living units have been refurbished in order to promote interventions to prepare the customer to return to their living environment. The premises were not adapted to accommodate units therapeutic mental health. We needed places suitable methods of treatment. (...) The physical adjustments in connection with the reorganization of services in partnership with stakeholders, "said chief medical customer care program in mental health, psychiatrist Dr. Pierre Beauséjour, who recalls that these units represent 30 per cent of care activities at CHUS Hotel-Dieu.
"These units mental health provide a more adequate and better working environment. There is more space and privacy for customers and more security for staff and doctors, "said Chairman of the Board of CHUS, Jacques Fortier.
Fewer beds per room
A major redevelopment is that the rooms three or four beds have been replaced by private rooms and semi-private.
"We have created a conducive environment by offering more privacy for patients. The breakdown has been repaired and safety aspects have been improved. Each room now allows seats or stretchers to enter or leave. It will be easier to respond in emergencies physics, "says Dr Beauséjour.
"These are places that will offer one more chance. The human factor is very important, "said chief clinical and administrative Alain Dumais.
The number of beds floors of the four doomed to mental health care remains the same at 105. The average stay of those clients is about 20 to 22 days.
Units of mental health care in 1300 represent hospitalizations per year and more than 4,000 outpatients. Some 200 staff and 23 psychiatrists working with this clientele.
The consultation offices and outpatient clinics in mental health are also the subject of major renovations which continue until 2010.
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