Boarding psychiatric patients on the medical ward

I take it that there is no Partial Hospitalization Program in this hospital? Because it sounds very much like a PHP + lodging kind of set up, but the medical bed piece would be expensive if there is not a medical justification for hospitalization. Still, sounds like you would essentially be assessing and documenting that the patients are suitable for discharge, then lodging them on medicine here...

I will say that I was a moonlighter long ago at a smallish community hospital with 20-some inpt psych beds, of which 10 or so were on a locked hallway and others, for voluntary patients deemed low-risk, were "open" to the rest of the hospital, just like any other med-surg bed in the hospital. Really, it's just a matter of risk assessment, isn't it?

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Boarding psychiatric patients on the medical ward