A combined internal medicine-psychiatry clinic at a community hospital: initial experiences
Griffith, J.P.
West Virginia Medical Journal 90(9): 370-372
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-3284 PMID: 7992485 Document Number: 437995
A new internal medicine/psychiatry outpatient clinic was recently established at Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC). This report describes the clinical profiles of the first 52 patients and also reviews the clinic's staffing, facilities, referral sources and reimbursement. For large community hospitals, a med-psych clinic may be a useful method of providing psychiatric treatment to medically-ill outpatients.