WILMINGTON — The fourth Assurance Health location for the senior healthcare community begins accepting patients this month at 610 W. Main St. in Wilmington.
Assurance Health is a privately owned short-term senior inpatient psychiatric care hospital. Assurance Health Wilmington is the fourth hospital location, since the first flagship hospital began accepting patients in Anderson, Indiana in February 2015. Assurance Health Cincinnati, the second hospital location, opened in May 2016.
Assurance Health Wilmington is a state-of-the-art, 14-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital, located within Clinton Memorial Hospital designed to meet the unique mental health needs of the aging population. Staff consists of board certified geriatric physicians, nurse practitioners and registered nurses that collaboratively utilize interventions to meet the complex needs of the senior population.
The small family centered environment encompasses a high staffing ratio allow for one-on-one attention focused care for each individual.
Assurance Health provides quality of life-enhancing group therapy activities, led by highly trained and experienced occupational therapists, recreation therapists, mental health technicians & certified nursing assistants. Masters trained social workers provide ongoing caregiver support and community resources throughout length of stay and post discharge.
Assurance aims to partner with local area agencies on ageing, the Alzheimer’s Association, Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addictions, local long-term care facilities, area hospitals, family physicians, geriatricians, home health and hospice among other senior care resources.
The hospital will start accepting new patients this month. The open house will provide community and organizational leaders an opportunity to tour the new hospital unit, meet hospital staff and learn what sets us apart among senior mental health care providers.
