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AVH marks 45th anniversary of mental health unit

by The AV Times Staff • January 25, 2016

AV Hospital

LANCASTER — In January of 1971, Antelope Valley Hospital opened an in-patient mental health unit to allow local residents to access mental health services without leaving the Antelope Valley.

Today, the unit includes 30 licensed beds and offers care for a range of mental health needs, including schizophrenia, depression and substance abuse. The unit serves hundreds of local residents every year.

“Our goal is to help patients get through a crisis and provide them with the right interventions and therapies aimed at getting them back to their routines and daily activities,” stated AVH Compliance Officer Vikki Haley, RN, MS, CCP.

Haley has been involved with the hospital’s mental health unit for 35 years.

“In addition to the care we provide at AVH, we work with a variety of community partners to help people continue in a positive direction long after they’ve left the hospital,” Haley stated.

According to the California Healthcare Foundation, nearly one in six adults in California has a mental health need, and approximately one in 20 suffers from a serious mental illness. The Antelope Valley has a particularly high incidence of depression and an above-average suicide rate.

“These statistics underscore the need for mental health services right here in our community, a role that AVH has been proud to play for the past 45 years and into the future,” noted Haley.

[Information via news release from Antelope Valley Hospital.]

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Filed Under: Health, Lancaster

5 comments for "AVH marks 45th anniversary of mental health unit"

  1. Anon says

    January 27, 2016 at 7:45 am

    It would be helpful if they did some testing on a certain individual who thinks bird sounds and spending $10 million taxpayer dollars on a ridiculous spy plane lowers crime, that 67 homeless people a day are being sent from LA to Lancaster on the Metrolink train, and that in his second term it will be challenging and interesting to spend most of his time on transforming Lancaster into a 21st century city because up until now, he’s been primarily dealing with “problems”.

    Problems? Like what, pray tell? Failed Ecolution? Crime rate rising? East side of town a mess? Closing stores? Bad roads? Panhandling on the BLVD? Labor problems with BYD? Birth tourism? Homelessness?

    Problems? What problems?

    • Rjm says

      January 27, 2016 at 7:17 pm

      That would be one freakish psychological profile.

    • The Doctor is in says

      January 28, 2016 at 2:02 pm

      A delusional meglomaniac. That sums it up.

  2. Christine says

    January 26, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    AVH sucks [removed]crack on mental health they don’t care about your mental state they just want to get their job over with as soon as possible so they say your fine and release you I tried to kill myself overdosed on pills ON PURPOSE and they did a mental questions on me and all I remember and answered was why the [removed] do you keep asking me questions and why the [removed] does he keep answering them my bf at the time was answering my questions for me then they told me I didn’t try to commit suicide and I’m just a pill popper BS i know what I did then they released me And I was incoherent wasn’t even myself with sewing stuff that wasn’t there and cutting projects that I didn’t have I have videos of me for a full 24 hours doing all sorts of weird s*** that wasn’t really doing I want to sue the f*** out of them how can I tell me that I didn’t try and kill myself when I did they don’t care they just want to get there get paid and go home [removed] healthcare

    • Monroe says

      January 26, 2016 at 9:36 pm

      Gees go somewhere else then. Your the [removed] that stays in lancaster instead of trying to get help somewhere else. I can tell u have issue, so maybe u should reach out to someone else.

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