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