CLINICAL RESOURCES

The UNM Psychiatry Center:  An up-to-date, community based facility offering a full range of psychiatric treatment to adult patients.  There are 45 inpatient beds, serving 30 general adult psychiatric patients and 15 addiction patients.   The adult units averaged 90 admissions per month in the 2002-2003 academic year, and the Addiction ward averaged 42 admissions per month in the same period.  The average length of stay on the wards is 9.7 days.  The emergency services department is the only psychiatric facility in the state with a psychiatrist available 24 hours per day.  In the 2002-2003 academic year, there was an average of 494 visits per month to the emergency psychiatry service. 

Albuquerque Veterans Administration Medical Center:  Located four miles from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center, this tertiary care center relates to the Health Science Center as a Dean’s Committee Hospital.  Teaching physicians are full members of the medical school faculty.  The center provides 217 acute and long term care beds for 63,000 eligible veterans in the area.  In fiscal year 2002, the medical center had 6,212 inpatient admissions and 439,890 outpatient visits.  Special services include a spinal cord injury program, comprehensive cancer center, and seven community-based rural clinics.  The center serves as a training site for psychiatry residents rotating on medicine and neurology rotations.

 

The mental health services include a comprehensive trauma program, comprehensive substance abuse program with a residential facility, integrated psychiatry primary care program, behavioral medicine program, outpatient and inpatient consult liaison service, as well as a 28 bed general adult inpatient service.  In fiscal year 2002, 8,235 patients sought mental health services.  This included 68,196 outpatient visits and 576 inpatient admissions.  In addition to providing training to psychiatry residents, the facility provides training for psychology interns at the doctoral level, social workers, nurses and occupational therapists. 

 

Rural Psychiatry Programs: Rural psychiatry experiences are available in the fourth year.  These ambulatory care settings are developed throughout New Mexico and offer clinical and community systems experience.  The department also networks with the Indian Health Service, the Las Vegas (New Mexico) State Hospital, public and private psychiatric clinics and hospitals throughout the state, a unique private practice group in Anchorage, Alaska, and the forensic psychiatry unit at the Bernalillo County Detention Center in Albuquerque.  All are available for resident training.

 

Milagro Clinic:  Milagro is a program for the treatment of substance abusing pregnant women.  The program was initiated by the Department of OBGYN in collaboration with the departments of psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Public Health.  It has been in existence for over ten years and has been a valuable resource for the entire state of New Mexico.  Dr. Abbott works with Dr. Rayburn, Chairman of the Department of OBGYN, who is the director of Milagro.  Dr. Abbott provides psychiatric consultation and assists in managing patients on methadone who often have complex addiction issues.  Milagros has an active caseload of approximately 100 patients and between 10-20 patients who are on methadone maintenance.  The Milagro Clinic recently moved to 2450 Alamo SE, housed with the Addiction Substance Abuse Program.