Psychiatrist - Corrections

Psychiatrist - Corrections

Mile High City – tucked between Cherry Hills & Littleton

The Facility – Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan (CMHIFL)

The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan (CMHIFL) is a 94-bed hospital that provides inpatient behavioralhealth treatment services to adult patients. It is a teaching hospital that provides excellent psychiatric care to a vulnerable patient population. As one of the State's two mental health hospitals, CMHIFL serves a highly diverse patient population and embraces a recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approach to care. You will join us during an exciting time of growth as we increase inpatient bed capacity in the near future. Psychiatrists are supported by a team of professionals including medical physicians, social workers, psychologists, and a physician-friendly administration. The Colorado Mental Health Institute:

• Embraces a multidisciplinary, team-based approach.
• Has markedly low rates of seclusion and restraint.
• Provides additional in-house therapeutic and consultative services including electroconvulsive therapy, behavioral neurology, neuropsychology, dentistry, PT/OT, and others, in addition to a robust network of community-based medical resources.
• Proudly advocates for the patients we serve.
• Currently serves a civil patient population with serious mental illness. As hospital bed capacity increases over the next few years, some inpatient beds may be dedicated to forensic patients.

This is a rewarding opportunity to work with an excellent team of committed professionals who care deeply about their work and the patients we serve. We take great care of a vulnerable patient population and do the right thing.

Psychiatrist's Role in Correctional Medicine

Physicians in corrections have a captive audience of patients, literally and figuratively, that need a wide variety of medical care. Incarcerated individuals enter and stay in your practice with every possible medical condition. Many of these patients may have had little or no prior mental health care, other than emergency room visits. The correctional physician must be prepared for this population. Many of these patients may have current or past substance abuse issues. Many of these patients may have poor coping skills and even a mind-set to defy authority. Psychiatrists at CMHI...

• Provide evidence-based psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in an inpatient setting.
• Provide exceptional psychiatric care and truly make a difference without the traditional stressors of a for-profit or production-based setting.
• Manage a reasonable caseload.
• Provide expert testimony for court-ordered medication and treatment.
• Are supported by a team of professionals including medical physicians, social workers, psychologists, nurses, pharmacists, and a physician-friendly administration.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited Medical School (MD/DO degree)
• Completion of an accredited US General Psychiatry Residency
• Board Certification (or eligible for examination) by the ABPN
• Unrestricted Colorado Medical License in good standing
• Current DEA certificate
• AHA basic life support (BLS)
• Eligible to practice in a State institution and must pass background and drug screen

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"The country's largest mental health facilities are our prisons." Reena Kapoor, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and associate program director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut