For the first time in Russia, an institution for the treatment of mental illness opened in Moscow in 1924. Such institutions were created throughout the country with the aim of implementing neuropsychiatric prophylaxis and recording patients with identified disorders. Including the Cherepovets mental hospital.
Their activities include medical, diagnostic, outpatient or inpatient work, the organization and conduct of psychiatric examinations, and preventive measures. Address of the location of the regional neuropsychiatric dispensary: Cherepovets, Command Belova, 44. This is a budgetary healthcare institution of the Vologda region.
The specifics of the medical institution
VUZ VO “Vologda Regional Neuropsychiatric Dispensary No. 1” takes care of residents of the city of Cherepovets (Kaduy, Chagodoschensky, Cherepovets, Sheksninsky, Babaevsky, Ustyuzhensky districts). Cherepovets mental hospital provides qualified medical care to a certain contingent of the population.
The main areas of work:
- diagnosis of mental disorders (including at an early stage);
- organization of preventive measures;
- targeted population survey;
- taking patients under patronage;
- comprehensive examination;
- qualified special care on an outpatient basis and in a hospital setting;
- elimination of causes, factors that negatively affect the health of patients;
- treatment, prevention of symptoms of the disease.
The list of services to the population
The main activities carried out by the Cherepovets mental hospital for citizens:
- mental health surveys;
- forensic examinations;
- medical examinations for the right to drive vehicles, own weapons;
- counseling, treatment, rehabilitation of patients with various mental disorders;
- medical and psychological assistance in borderline conditions.
Hospitalization in the hospital is carried out: according to the planned direction, emergency indications, with independent treatment of patients, in a forced manner by court order, direction of the military commissariat.
The structure of the medical institution
The hospital consists of 6 departments (1 nursery, 5 adults). The structure of the dispensary includes:
- 24-hour hospital (for 280 adults, 20 children). Full hospitalization of sick citizens for treatment, adaptation under constant medical supervision using intensive methods of exposure.
- Day hospital (for 90 adults, 60 children). This includes patients who need temporary semi-stationary monitoring and treatment of borderline forms of mental disorders (neurosis, psychosomatic, neurosis-like conditions, etc.).
- Dispensary department providing outpatient care. Social rehabilitation, medical consultation, diagnostic, psychotherapeutic work.
The dispensary employs psychiatrists, forensic psychiatric experts, psychotherapists, physiotherapists, functional diagnostics, laboratory technicians, and paramedical personnel. Psychodiagnostics and psychocorrection are carried out by staff psychologists. In the children's department there is a speech therapist, music worker, educators.
Cherepovets mental hospital operates in accordance with the Russian Law "On Psychiatric Care" in compliance with hospitalization and internal rules.
Inquiries and questions about the services provided, the mode of operation is given by the registry of the Cherepovets psychiatric dispensary by phone for inquiries and a hotline.