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Description

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Our Mission
Silver Hill Hospital is an academic affiliate of Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
The mission of Silver Hill Hospital is to provide our patients with the best available treatment of mental illness and addiction and to offer continuing support counseling and education to our patients and their families in every phase of illness and recovery

Our Vision
The vision of Silver Hill Hospital is to establish a helpful lasting relationship with each of our patients their families and their clinicians in the community and to remain involved in each patients care for as long as we are asked We will educate clinicians patients their families and members of the community about the nature and treatment of psychiatric disorders and addictions We will strive to advance the frontiers of our field through continued scholarship

Our Values
Individual Dignity We respect the dignity of all who pass through our doors the patients the visitors the volunteers the medical staff the employees and foster this respect for dignity through all of our achievements

Tradition of Service We are committed to our tradition of providing healthcare services necessary to meet the needs of the communities served We value the longstanding care relationship that exists between the provider of care and their patients and will continue to draw upon the various disciplines within the healthcare delivery system to ensure the continuance of this heritage

Respect for Rights We believe that our patients possess inherent rights including privacy and confidentiality and these rights shall be known and respected by all of our employees

Technology with Compassion We recognize technology and compassion as equal partners in the delivery of healthcare services

Leadership We value growth and development of our employees By creating a collaborative environment in which our employees are given the opportunity to advance and excel we demonstrate that we look to them for the leadership of tomorrow

Trust and Fairness We foster a climate of openness in which all who work here treat one another with trust and fairness We support open communication to enhance this climate

Education We believe in and support the education of our employees patients and community

Efficiency We encourage the strategic and efficient utilization of all resources Using clinical judgment and good management practices we demonstrate a commitment to responsible financial stewardship

Innovation and Diversification We encourage innovation to advance the programs offered by Silver Hill Hospital We also value the strategic diversification of healthcare services consistent with our vision

Community Support We place great value on those members of our community who support Silver Hill Hospital by volunteering their time and by their philanthropy In return Silver Hill Hospital participates in a positive manner in the community

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History

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History
In 1931 Dr John Millet founded Silver Hill Hospital in a hillside farmhouse on the slopes of the Silvermine River Valley of New Canaan CT From this modest beginning the hospital has grown to include 14 buildings spread over 40 acres and has become nationally renowned for its effectiveness in treating mental illnesses and addictions Despite this growth the original farmhouse now known as the Patricia Regnemer House has always been the centerpiece of the Silver Hill Hospital campus It retains much of the grace and charm it had at the time of Silver Hill Hospitals founding

The treatment of mental illness has changed in ways unimaginable in 1931 yet Millets vision remains just as vital and relevant Patients and their loved ones can be treated with dignity and respect They can be active participants in their own treatments and agents of their own recovery They can be afforded both the best standard treatments of the day and the most innovative new treatments They should be able to remain at Silver Hill Hospital until they are ready to resume their normal lives And all of this takes place in a bucolic calm and dignified setting that in itself fosters the process of recovery

Today great leaps forward in the understanding of disorders of the brain mental disorders and addictive disorders have revolutionized treatments New pharmacologic treatments a modality only 50 years old are advancing almost weekly Recently developed powerful and effective new techniques of individual psychotherapy and group psychotherapy are becoming mainstays of treatment Many of these new treatments have allowed us to shorten the length of hospitalizations in acutecare inpatient psychiatry units

Yet recovery from mental illness takes time Very often when a patient can safely be discharged from an inpatient unit he or she is far from ready to resume a normal life That is why Silver Hill Hospital has retained and continually improved our Transitional Living Programs These onsite extended stay residential programs can serve as an important component of a comprehensive treatment plan often beginning with crisis management and stabilization in our inpatient units and continuing with an extended treatment program of rehabilitation and recovery

The Transitional Living Program allows patients who have achieved stabilization to continue their treatment in a more residential homelike setting while continuing to participate in a highly structured intensive program with fulltime psychiatric nursing and social work staff Its five tracks include Substance Use Disorders Dual Disorders Eating Disorders a Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT track for severe personality disorders and an extended stay program for Persistent Psychiatric Disorders Since the program components are modular there is the flexibility to combine the components of several different tracks to make optimal individual treatment plans

The great challenge for Silver Hill Hospital has been to stay in the vanguard of new developments in psychiatric treatments while embracing the belief that the environment of care is as important as the techniques of care Our success lies in delivering tomorrows treatments within a compassionate dignified restful and calming environment Our ability to achieve this over many decades is more than anything what distinguishes us from almost all other psychiatric facilities and indeed is what makes Silver Hill a great hospital

Silver Hill Hospital was founded in 1931 in order to treat patients with psychiatric illnesses Today our New Canaan Connecticut psychiatric hospital is renowned for its gifted dedicated staffits magnificent surroundingsand most important of all for its remarkable ability to treat serious mental illness and substance use disorders