Among those on the care team in the Brief Intervention Unit in Psychiatry are (from right) Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Biskin, Associate Director Laurence Benoit-Dubé, Nurse Clinician Dorothée Mukagashumba, Orderly Desmond Isaac Ololade, Chief Program Manager Ryan Muscott, and volunteer Pet Therapist Justine Lang. (Click to enlarge.)
Feature articlesFebruary 2025

New Psychiatry unit is geared to patients requiring short-term hospitalization

Treatment for less-severe conditions lasts two to three days in Brief Intervention Unit in Psychiatry.

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Tung Tran (left), Director of the CIUSSS’s Mental Health and Addiction Program, and Dr. Marc Miresco, JGH Director of Adult Psychiatric External Services.
July 2020Telehealth

Using the digital tools of telepsychiatry to forge emotional bonds

Using keyboard and screen to build trust between psychiatrist and patient? Not an obvious choice. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic helped telepsychiatry take root at the JGH and CIUSSS West-Central Montreal.

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