Job Details: EXCEPTIONAL GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY OPPORTUNITY

Description: Exceptional Geriatric Psychiatry Opportunity available within Behavioral Care Services of Community Health Network. Immediate need exists to provide in-patient consultations at Community Hospitals South, East, and North.
Exceptional Geriatric Psychiatry Opportunity

Exceptional Geriatric Psychiatry Opportunity available within Behavioral Care Services of Community Health Network. Immediate need exists to provide in-patient consultations at Community Hospitals South, East, and North.

Community Health Network's behavioral care services is central Indiana's largest provider of mental health services, with an extensive continuum of treatment options. We see about 5,000 inpatients and nearly 20,000 outpatients each year, ranging from age 4 to older adults. Patients are seen in individual therapy, family or group therapy. Utilizing psychiatric assessment and evaluation, personal treatment plans are developed by physicians, psychologists, advance practice nurses, therapists and counselors.

The Psychiatric Pavilion, a full-service, 125-bed inpatient behavioral care hospital, is located on the Community Hospital North campus. Crisis services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for immediate evaluations over the phone or in person.

Gallahue Mental Health Services provides outpatient behavioral care services in Marion, Hancock, Madison and Shelby counties. The Community Support Service program provides an array of therapeutic programs for the severely mentally ill (SMI), including employment training and assistance with job placement.

Another large component of Community's behavioral care services is the school-based program. Gallahue's professional staff delivers mental health services to students in the school environment in more than 50 sites for Indianapolis Public Schools and the metropolitan school districts of Lawrence, Warren, Washington and Wayne townships.

At Community Health Network Behavioral Care Services, we're dedicated to assisting our clients in getting back to their lives.

Established in 1956, Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is a leading not-for-profit health system offering convenient access to expert physicians, advanced treatments and leading-edge technology-all focused on getting patients well and back to their lives. With caring and compassion, our staff at Community's five hospitals and more than 70 sites of care continually strives to improve the health and well-being of those individuals in Indianapolis who entrust their care to us.

Indianapolis is the 12th largest city in the US with a population of about 1.7 million. Indiana is also one of the most physician friendly states due to tort reform and the low cost of living.
Visit us online at www.eCommunity.com or contact:

Liberty Wilken
Network Physician Recruiter
Community Health Network
317-621-9778
866-266-6067 toll free
lwilken@ecommunity.com

Posting Date: Mar 11 08