Hardtner Life Phases is a 10-bed inpatient psychiatric unit located in Hardtner Medical Center for adults age 40+ suffering from emotional, behavioral, or psychiatric problems requiring 24 hour supervision.

 

 

Providing on-site pre-admission assessment, complete psychiatric and medical exams, 24 hour nursing care, diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric and mental illnesses. We have ready access to a critical access hospital and ER, therefore will consider accepting more medically complex patients, as appropriate. For example, we are able, on a case-by-case basis, to accept patients with limited mobility, those patients requiring supplemental O2, those requiring indwelling catheters, patients with established trachs, gastrostomy tubes, and morbidly obese patients up to 600#, and CPAPs. We are unable to accept: acute medical instability, patients requiring continuous IVs, PICC Lines/central lines, Wound vacs, or Ventilator support. We cannot accept patients with pending legal charges or who are currently incarcerated, known Covid positive patients, patients requiring Dialysis, Non-established or new tracheostomy patients, those requiring Bipap or Non-rebreather, or those with Chemical Dependency only. Life Phases provides psychosocial and activity groups, family/group/individual education, physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy and medication adjustment, and therapeutic milieu.

Providing services for patients with depression, psychosis, dementia, Alzheimer’s, delirium, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, confusion, bizarre/delusional/agitated behavior who pose a danger to themselves or others, are unable to effectively attend to activities of daily living, or who have failed to respond to outpatient treatment. 

Aetna Medicare HMO