Queens Medical Center Behavioral Health

Queens Medical Center Behavioral Health

Services:
Facility Vaping Policy
• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Group therapy

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services

Type of Care

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

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Private health insurance
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicare
• Medicaid

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Seniors
• Adults
• Children/Adolescents

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

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

• Private non-profit organization

Ancillary Services

• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Education services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Integrated primary care services
• Illness management and recovery
• Legal advocacy
• Case management service
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Members of military families
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Veterans
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Seniors or older adults
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Young adults
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Pharmacotherapies

• Fluphenazine
• Paliperidone
• Droperidol
• Quetiapine
• Perphenazine
• Risperidone
• Aripiprazole
• Lurasidone
• Asenapine
• Clozapine
• Ziprasidone
• Nicotine replacement
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Haloperidol
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Chlorpromazine
• Olanzapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted