Acute Care Mental Health Hospital Program

The Rotary Home – Acute Care Mental Health Bed program is jointly delivered by Windsor Regional Hospital and Maryvale Adolescent and Family Services.  When youth are admitted to the Rotary Home program they are Windsor Regional Hospital patients.  The program delivers multidisciplinary assessment and crisis stabilization to young people under the age of 16 years who present to one of the local hospital emergency rooms including, Windsor Regional Hospital – Metropolitan campus and Erie Shores Health Care for the Windsor-Essex area or Chatham-Kent Health Alliance for the Chatham-Kent area, in crisis.

The focus of our program is to conduct careful assessment of the various factors contributing to the crisis in which the child/youth (and family) find themselves. This means access to child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, nursing and child and youth care workers.  Each member of the team contributes observations regarding the patient’s functioning.

Our goal is to complete a comprehensive mental health assessment and to connect youth and families with immediate follow-up services well suited to their assessed needs.  As an acute healthcare unit, our length of stay is brief.  We must complete our assessment and make discharge plans as efficiently as possible.  Admission and discharge criteria are ultimately determined by the psychiatrist and discharge can occur whenever the psychiatrist is comfortable with the patient’s safety/overall level of risk.