Taipei City Hospital

An Introduction to the Psychiatry Department of Taipei City Hospital

• The Regional Psychiatric Service Network in Taiwan
  •  Taiwan is divided into seven areas for psychiatric care, in which there is a “core hospital ” in each of them.
  • Taipei City Hospital, Songde Branch, is the core hospital for the Taipei Area and serves a population of 7 million.
  • The roles of the core hospital are:
    • develop psychiatric manpower and facilities
    •  innovate in and improve on mental health programs
    •  coordinate all the mental health services to provide comprehensive and continuous care
    •  promote mental health education
    •  help upgrade the quality of care in private mental hospitals

 

 

 

• Taipei City Hospital psychiatric service consists of
  •  Five General Hospitals
  •  Women and Children Hospital
  •  The Psychiatric Hospital

 

 

 

• Psychiatric beds in Taipei City Hospital

 

 

 

• General beds
  • Acute psychotic - 407
  • Chronic psychotic - 133
  • Total - 540
• Special beds
  • Day care - 455
  • Intensive care unit - 12
  • ER observation - 16
  • Total - 483
• Community psychiatric rehabilitation center - 287

 

 

 

• Facilities
  •  Department of General Psychiatry
  •  Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  •  Department of Psychosomatic Illness
  •  Department of Addictive Science
  •  Department of Community Psychiatry
  •  Alliance professionals
    • Occupational therapy
    • Clinical psychology
    • Psychiatric social work
    • Nursing

 

 

 

• Our Missions
  •  To provides psychiatric services
  • To provides psychiatric resident training programs
  • To teach psychiatry within the medical education curriculum (Taipei Medical University), as clerkships and as internships
  • To carry out psychiatric research

 

 

 

• Integrated Psychiatric Services of the “Taipei Model”
  •  Walk-in clinics
  •  Emergency services
  •  Psychiatric assessment and intensive care units
  •  Admission services
    •  Acute admission
    •  Neurotic ward
    •  Active rehabilitation services
    •  Day care
  • Community rehabilitation centers
  • Emergency outreach services
  • Community mental health services
  • Out-reach services

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Community psychiatric rehabilitation centers
  • Mission of community psychiatric rehabilitation
    • To provide convenient, efficient and continuous care.
    • To decrease the demand on psychiatric beds and to shorten hospital stays.
    • To share the care load of families.

 

 

 

 

• Fu-Chung Occupational Workshop (Capacity: 60)
• Tsao-Shan Occupational Workshop (Capacity: 29)
• Wen-Shan Occupational Workshop (Capacity: 99)
• Hsin-Hu Occupational Workshop (Capacity: 99)

 

 

 

 

 

Wen-Shan Occupational Workshop

 

Tsao-Shan Occupational Workshop

 

 

Hsin-Hu Occupational Workshop

 

 

Fu-Chung Occupational Workshop