Kinston Community Health Center (KCHC), a federally-qualified health center (FQHC) in Kinston, NC, is the primary training site for the integrated care rotation. KCHC is a private, non-profit community health center that provides medical, dental, ob/gyn and pediatric services primarily to underserved and uninsured residents of Lenoir County, NC. During this rotation, interns will learn to provide brief, behaviorally—focused interventions in an integrated care setting.
Interns will have the opportunity to learn community-based psychology by participating in the NC START program, a unique, community-based program designed to provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities and behavioral needs. The START team proves consultation and support to patients, providers, and families across eastern NC. The overarching goal of this program is to provide a community-based, person-centered support network that provides services to individuals in crisis within the community setting. Training will occur at various sites across eastern NC which includes patients homes, respite facilities, group homes, in-patient hospitals, and in providers’ work settings (e.g. community support agencies).
Services will be provided in various settings within Pitt County Memorial Hospital including acute care units, Emergency Department, in-patient rehabilitation and behavioral health units. http://www.uhseast.com/uhseast/main-detail.aspx?id=5961
The Behavioral Health Unit is a 52 bed unit housed within Pitt County Memorial Hospital. This unit provides acute care, multidisciplinary adult psychiatric services, geriatrics, MR/MI, Med/Psych for patients with comorbid psychiatric and medical illness.
Cherry Hospital is a regional, state psychiatric facility which serves patients from 36 counties in Eastern North Carolina. Cherry houses adult, geriatric, and adolescent acute care units and also a longer term psychiatric rehabilitation unit for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
The Psychiatry Outpatient Center is the primary training clinic for the Department of Psychiatric Medicine. The clinic is a multidisciplinary clinic (psychiatry, psychology, mental health nursing, social work) that provides outpatient services including individual and group psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, 24-hour crisis management, and psychiatric/psychological consultation services. A number of specialty services and/or clinics are housed within our training clinic including an Anxiety Disorders Clinic, Child & Adolescent Services, Developmental Disabilities Clinic, Geriatrics, Neuropsychology, Clinical Health Psychology, psychological testing, and substance abuse treatment.
