Mohawk Valley Psych Center

Description

Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center provides quality individualized psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation services that promote recovery Services include Adult inpatient outpatient clinic residential crisis and case management services Assertive Community Treatment Intensive Case Management amp Supportive Case ManagementChildren amp Adolescent inpatient outpatient day treatment crisis and case management services Intensive Case Management

Amtrak and Adirondack TrailwaysGreyhound Buses serve the Utica area The trainbus station is only 15 miles from the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center campus

Area Served

Adult Inpatient and Outpatient Oneida Herkimer Fulton Montgomery and Hamilton Counties Adult inpatient services are accessed through each countys crisis emergency services or pursuant to a transfer from another inpatient facility

Children amp Adolescent Inpatient Oneida Herkimer Fulton Montgomery Hamilton Albany Rensselaer Schenectady Schoharie Warren Washington Saratoga Columbia Greene Otsego Delaware and Chenango Counties Children amp Adolescent inpatient services are accessed through each countys crisis emergency services or pursuant to a transfer from another inpatient facility

Mission

The mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers with a particular focus on providing hope and recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances

Vision

The New York State Office of Mental Health envisions a future when everyone with a mental illness will recover when all mental illnesses can be prevented or cured when everyone with a mental illness at any stage of life has access to effective treatment and supportsessential for livingworking learning and participating fully in the community

Values

Recovery is the process of gaining control over ones life in the context of the personal social and economic losses that may result from the experience of psychiatric disability It is a continuing nonlinear highly individual process that is based on hope and leads to healing and growth

Hope is the belief that one has both the ability and the opportunity to engage in the recovery process

Excellence is the state of possessing superior merit in the design delivery and evaluation of mental health services

Respect is esteem for the worth of a person including recognition of dignity diversity and cultural differences

Safety is an environment free from hurt injury or danger

OMH is achieving its mission and vision by focusing on accountability best practices coordination of care and attention to disparities elimination and cultural competence to plan and manage performance in its daytoday operations Known as the quotABCDs of mental health carequot they are

Accountability for Results whereby a clearly defined entity or individual is responsible for the effectiveness of services delivered Services are designed and delivered to achieve specific outcomes which are measured by performance
indicators

Best Practices whereby service design and delivery are based on the best research and evidence available and best practice guidelines are incorporated into treatment practicesAdherence to these guidelines is measured as part of the accountability process

Coordination of Care whereby coordinatedcomprehensive networks of providers deliver a balanced array of medical selfhelp social supportive and rehabilitative services and programsThese services are focused on rehabilitation and recovery and individualized service plans are designed around the needs and desires of the individual

Disparities Elimination and Cultural Competence whereby all service components are held accountable to address disparities in access to and participation in servicesdifferences are managed skillfully cultural knowledge is absorbed organizationally language assistance services are provided routinely and service modifications are made to take into account the diversity of individuals families and communities

To effectively meet agency responsibilities OMH organizes daytoday operations into four lines of business

RegulationCertificationand Oversight of New Yorks Public Mental Health System
Direct Provision of Stateoperated Inpatient and Outpatient Mental Health Services
Mental Health Research to Advance PreventionTreatmentand Recovery
Promotion ofMental Health through Public Education