Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca Behavioral Services Unit

Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca Behavioral Services Unit

Services:
Ancillary Services
• Integrated primary care services
• Suicide prevention services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Family psychoeducation
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Education services

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Other Languages

• Russian

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Private non-profit organization

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicare
• Private health insurance
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment

Pharmacotherapies

• Loxapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Ziprasidone
• Clozapine
• Chlorpromazine
• Quetiapine
• Prochlorperazine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Fluphenazine
• Brexpiprazole
• Olanzapine
• Lurasidone
• Haloperidol
• Asenapine
• Cariprazine
• Risperidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Aripiprazole
• Paliperidone

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Activity therapy

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Crisis intervention team

Language Services

• Other languages (excluding Spanish)
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Children/Adolescents
• Seniors