Saint Clare's Hospital - Boonton, located at 130 Powervile Road
Boonton Township, New Jersey
Boonton Township () is a Township (New Jersey), township in Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,380, an increase of 117 (2.7%) from the ...
, is a 100-bed
psychiatric
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, mood, emotion, and behavior.
Initial psychiatric assessment of ...
facility.
Description
The hospital has children
crisis intervention
Crisis intervention is a time-limited intervention with a specific psychotherapeutic approach to immediately stabilize those in crisis.
Cross-national approaches
Across different countries, crisis intervention following mass trauma events su ...
services (CCIS), adult crisis intervention services (ACIS), alcohol &
chemical dependency
Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has develope ...
unit (ACDU), and psychiatric
intensive care
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unit (PICU). The hospital also several
outpatient
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programs, for adults and children. The hospital was once called Riverside Hospital. About 20 years after the hospital started, Saint Clare's merged with it to create Saint Clare's Riverside Hospital.
St. Clare's Hospital was acquired by Prime Healthcare Services on July 31, 2015. The effective date of the sale was deferred until October 1, 2015.
The hospital also serves as a base for two Saint Clare's EMS ambulances, part of the larger Saint Clare's Health EMS Department.
See also
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In re Quinlan'': court case for a patient
References
External links
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Companies based in Morris County, New Jersey
Psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey
Hospitals with year of establishment missing
Boonton Township, New Jersey
Prime Healthcare Services
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