Provide evidence-based care to reduce suicide and self-harm.
Support and train families for positive interactions.
Promote DBT and train healthcare and school mental health professionals.
This ward (acute psychiatric ward) adheres to the mission of Mackay Hospital: to provide holistic treatment of body, mind, and spirit in the spirit of Jesus Christ to love others as ourselves and to care for the vulnerable, to achieve the purpose of medical evangelism, and to become the most popular psychiatric unit A medical center trusted by the community, it is centered on psychiatric patients, and through interprofessional practice and resource integration, its members include: doctors, nurses, psychologists, and social workers. Every Thursday, interprofessional practice discussions will be held to discuss suicide patients in the hospital. Discussions are made where team integration assistance is needed, and timely referrals are made. Services include: admission and treatment at suicide prevention centers, individual treatment by medical staff, and telephone consultation after discharge. In addition, theory and clinical equipment for preventing patient suicide are also combined. providing complete dialectical behavioral therapy skill exercises for patients who have repeatedly committed suicide, reducing depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and the number of self-injury, and further improving the quality of life.
The acute psychiatric ward is jointly led by Director Hsu Chien-chi and Supervisor Chen Li-hsueh of the Nursing Department, with the following teams involved:
All members of the Department of Psychiatry have qualified certificates, including psychiatrists, specialist nurses, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists.
Psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists from the Suicide Prevention and Treatment Center.
Nurses and security personnel in acute psychiatric wards.
Department of pastoral care: Chaplain and spiritual care provider.
Promote dialectical behavioral therapy and assist Fiji in establishing the Fiji Suicide Prevention Center.
In November 2012, our psychiatric team of MMH went to Fiji to figure out the actual situation there. In June 2014, out hospital sent a delegation of 5 people to Fiji again to coordinate and communicate with various government and private units. Mackay Psychiatric Department and ICDF participated together to improve the mental medical services of Fiji. And assisted Fiji in establishing the Fiji Suicide Prevention Center.
This act can be said to be the first time in Taiwan’s medical history that mental health care has been used to assist a foreign country in improving overall mental health care services.
Inpatient self-harm rate: 0
Better than medical centers0.01-0.08
DBT workshop clinical aid: 82%
Isolation care rate: 100%
Suicide self-care rate: 100%
Restraint care rate: 100%
Access control accuracy: 100%
Suicide check accuracy: 100%
Patient satisfaction: 3.61
Family satisfaction: 3.64
