Psychiatric Rehabilitation Division (Division P), Broughton Hospital




		Since 1875




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The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Division, with an operating capacity of 108 beds, is an adult residential treatment unit that provides treatment opportunities for those patients who require extended periods of hospitalization. Invididuals are first admitted to the Adult Admission Division and transferred to Division P when clinically determined to need longer term treatment. Services include individual and group psychotherapy, behavioral and psychosocial approaches, crisis intervention, and milieu therapy in addition to the use of psychoactive medications. Various professional disciplines (psychiatry, nursing, psychology, social work, therapeutic recreation, creative expressive arts, occupational therapy, speech, and vocations) operate in a transdisciplinary treatment model to design and implement individualized patient treatment programs. The division is dedicated to rehabilitating individuals to a level of functioning that will allow for the successful adaptation to life outside of the hospital.

Renee Brackett

Division P Administrator

Broughton Hospital is currently in the developmental stage for the implementation of a 50-bed forensic psychiatric treatment service for Western North Carolina. This forensic treatment unit will be a secure environment within which will provide mental health assessment and treatment services to psychiatric patients who have been found not guilty by reason of insanity or who have been charged with a violent crime but lack the capacity to proceed to trial. The unit will also provide services to selected psychiatric patients facing criminal charges who are competent but who have not yet gone to trial or other persons where there are clear indications of current risk for violence. This unit is not envisioned as one where pre-treat competency evaluations will be accomplished. It will be a full service, state of the art, service serving the western half of our state. The expected operational date is late 2007.


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	Broughton Hospital, 1000 South Sterling St., Morganton, NC 28655


	North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services