During this Mental Health Awareness Month, MHA on May 28 from 12:30 to 1 p.m. is spotlighting how the behavioral healthcare system is adapting to the unique challenges of providing inpatient psychiatric care during a pandemic. Join the team from UMass Memorial Health Care system’s Psychiatric Treatment and Recovery Center (PTRC) to learn about creating, operating, and managing a dedicated COVID+ psychiatric unit. The team will discuss key issues such as: making the decision to become a COVID+ unit, operationalizing the conversion, care and treatment of patients and staff, delivery and management of patient care, and infection control and cohorting potential. As the state begins to transition to a two-tiered system for all psychiatric units, insights and best practices from the PTRC will be beneficial to entities planning to create a COVID+ unit.
Register here.