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<blockquote data-quote="Rotsne" data-source="post: 229381" data-attributes="member: 6326"><p>It seems that the really small group homes or health care facilities with only 10 persons in a dorm seem to function best.</p><p> </p><p>When I had an relative hospitalized (severe depression - 450 mg effexor) the last time I was asked to reduce the wire to a mobile phone charger to under 5 cm so it could not be used for suicide. Access to mobile phone outside therapy and other treatment should be mandatory so the hospitalized person maintain the network. We were told not to phone the individual but text only. If the individual was ready to talk to anyone, we would receive a call.</p><p> </p><p>Visitation hours on daily basis if wanted by the comitted. The dorm was semi-closed. It meant that the door was closed all night and when they had patients they wanted to keep inside. The dorm was build so the patients could go outside in a small garden and smoke if they wanted <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=frederikssund+denmark&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.335236,75.585938&ie=UTF8&ll=55.848227,12.086519&spn=0.001325,0.004613&t=h&z=18" target="_blank">(See Google map)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Last but not least. Single room. The patients was even given a key, but of course the staff did also have some.</p><p> </p><p>In the family we were quite afraid before the hospitalization because it was regardless of the risk of suicide voluntary and we would not have asked for the court for an involuntary hospitalization, but the department treated the individual with respect and it was ended within 3 weeks. The out-patient treatment which should have followed did not work, so they offered to push the system from inside and while it took a couple of months where we were on the edge of a return, they found an out-patient solution in the end and gave out-patient treatment without being obligated. Without them I wouldn't know whether we would have been at a funeral.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rotsne, post: 229381, member: 6326"] It seems that the really small group homes or health care facilities with only 10 persons in a dorm seem to function best. When I had an relative hospitalized (severe depression - 450 mg effexor) the last time I was asked to reduce the wire to a mobile phone charger to under 5 cm so it could not be used for suicide. Access to mobile phone outside therapy and other treatment should be mandatory so the hospitalized person maintain the network. We were told not to phone the individual but text only. If the individual was ready to talk to anyone, we would receive a call. Visitation hours on daily basis if wanted by the comitted. The dorm was semi-closed. It meant that the door was closed all night and when they had patients they wanted to keep inside. The dorm was build so the patients could go outside in a small garden and smoke if they wanted [URL="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=frederikssund+denmark&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.335236,75.585938&ie=UTF8&ll=55.848227,12.086519&spn=0.001325,0.004613&t=h&z=18"](See Google map)[/URL]. Last but not least. Single room. The patients was even given a key, but of course the staff did also have some. In the family we were quite afraid before the hospitalization because it was regardless of the risk of suicide voluntary and we would not have asked for the court for an involuntary hospitalization, but the department treated the individual with respect and it was ended within 3 weeks. The out-patient treatment which should have followed did not work, so they offered to push the system from inside and while it took a couple of months where we were on the edge of a return, they found an out-patient solution in the end and gave out-patient treatment without being obligated. Without them I wouldn't know whether we would have been at a funeral. [/QUOTE]
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