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Riverview – Tobacco Free

In keeping with emerging national best practices of health care, and with the overwhelming knowledge and experience with the devastating effects tobacco addiction has on people with mental illness, Riverview Psychiatric Center has taken a leadership role and established a hospital wide, Tobacco Free -Health Conscious Environment, for staff , clients and visitors alike. The hospitals' policy of approaching our work in a total health conscious environment means that physical and emotional and mental health care issues are identified and good health practices are available and encouraged.

Riverview Psychiatric Center

The Riverview Psychiatric Center, in collaboration with the community, is a center for best practice, treatment, education and research, for individuals with serious, persistent mental illness, and co-occurring substance use disorders.

Main Entrance to Riverview

Riverview Psychiatric Center is different things to different stakeholders. Four major stakeholder groups are identified below with a descriptive statement of the characteristics that are perhaps most important to each group, along with Riverview’s commitments to each. The level of consistency in displaying these characteristics defines our success.

Riverview Psychiatric Center as seen by:

  • Clients--Riverview provides outstanding, compassionate, effective care that recognizes the individual wants and needs of those served. The focus on therapeutic relationships and alliance as the primary tool to support and assist the client is maintained through a tangible, client-centered service delivery model. Fidelity to goals of coercive-free interventions while maximizing safety is strictly maintained. Client comfort, client self-determination, and recovery are themes consistently expressed.
  • Employees--Skill enhancement and the celebration of service excellence is the magnetism which binds the work force. Pride in serving as a Center of Excellence for persons with serious mental illness is an expressed characteristic of all. Continual learning and professional growth of all employees adds to the rich camaraderie shared in the facility. Riverview provides a safe work environment for all employees. It is well recognized that Riverview’s long-term viability is maintained only through maintaining and exceeding the highest standards of care and satisfaction of those we serve.
  • Community Provider Partners--Riverview is a vital resource for education and expertise, and is easily accessible to community providers. As a service collaborator, Riverview values integration of multiple service views and works diligently with community partners to achieve a continuous care spanning the service system.
  • Community--Riverview Psychiatric Center provides effective and efficient care to citizens of Maine. As an organization it is highly accountable and a responsible steward of public trust and funding. Riverview enhances the community as a significant employer, and as a resource to help persons to recover and enjoy all aspects of citizenship.
  • Students-- Riverview Psychiatric Center provides educational opportunities for nursing students and pre-doctoral psychology students. Our psychology internship program is accredited by the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). We recruit and select qualified interns from a national pool of candidates.

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