Zucker Hillside Hospital

Last updated

Zucker Hillside Hospital
Northwell Health
Zucker Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, New York, United States.jpg
Zucker Hillside Hospital
Geography
Location Glen Oaks, New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates 40°45′08″N73°42′37″W / 40.75226914026147°N 73.71022068635428°W / 40.75226914026147; -73.71022068635428
Organization
Type Specialist
Services
Speciality Psychiatric hospital
History
OpenedJune 1926
Links
Lists Hospitals in New York State
Other links Hospitals in Queens

Zucker Hillside Hospital is a psychiatric facility [1] [2] [3] in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York. It opened in 1926, relocated to its present address in 1941, and was renamed [4] in 1999 to its present name. [5]

Contents

Overview

Zucker Hillside Hospital is an inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital. In the 1940s, they were an early deployer of electroconvulsive therapy. [5] In 1948, it reported that over half their mentally ill patients reportedly "recover[ed] or show[ed] much improvement". [6] Zucker Hillside operates as a division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, [2] following a 1971 merger. [7]

History

The hospital opened as Hastings Hillside Hospital [8] at a location in Westchester County [9] in June 1926. [10]

Neuro-Psychiatrist Israel Strauss was its founder, [11] [12] [13] and its focus is curable mental illnesses. [9] They relocated [14] to Glen Oaks, Queens in 1941, [9] having raised funds to build Hillside Hospital [15] in 1939. [14]

In 1948, they began construction of another building, "which will increase the capacity of the hospital from 88 to 172 beds." [16] [17] By the time of their 1971 merger with Long Island Jewish Medical Center they had 200 psychiatric beds, [7] and Hillside patients were participating in a system of self-government. [18]

Recognition and Prevention Program

The Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program is a research and specialty clinic located in the hospital. It provides education and treatment for young people and their families, and conducts research about the effects of early identification in preventing the progression of serious mental illnesses. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]

History

The RAP Program was founded by its director, Barbara A. Cornblatt, in 1998 and was one of the first programs in North America to investigate and treat the prodromal or pre-psychotic phases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. [26] [ citation needed ] Since its inception, over 250 adolescents and young adults, ages 12–22, have participated in the RAP clinic and research program.[ citation needed ]

RAP is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, and is part of the North American Prodromal Longitudinal Study (NAPLS), a consortium of eight prodromal programs which constitutes one of the leading investigations[ citation needed ] of the biological, behavioral and functional attributes of the psychosis prodrome worldwide. [27]

Wender Welfare League

Wender Welfare League was formed in 1934 by former patients of the hospital. [28] In 1942 they opened "a playground and recreation center covering several acres." [29] The League subsequently changed its name to the League for Mental Health. [30]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Schizophrenia</span> Mental disorder with psychotic symptoms

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, and flat or inappropriate affect. Symptoms develop gradually and typically begin during young adulthood and are never resolved. There is no objective diagnostic test; diagnosis is based on observed behavior, a psychiatric history that includes the person's reported experiences, and reports of others familiar with the person. For a diagnosis of schizophrenia, the described symptoms need to have been present for at least six months or one month. Many people with schizophrenia have other mental disorders, especially mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and obsessive–compulsive disorder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Psychiatric hospital</span> Hospital specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders

A psychiatric hospital, also known as a mental health hospital, or a behavioral health hospital, is a specialized medical facility that focuses on the treatment of severe mental disorders. These institutions cater to patients with conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and eating disorders, among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Institute of Mental Health (Singapore)</span> Hospital in Singapore

The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), formerly known as Woodbridge Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital in Hougang, Singapore.

Dr. Thomas McGlashan is an American professor of psychiatry at Yale University, well known for his academic contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Creedmoor Psychiatric Center</span> Psychiatric hospital in Queens, New York

Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital at 79-26 Winchester Boulevard in Queens Village, Queens, New York, United States. It provides inpatient, outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients. The hospital occupies more than 300 acres (121 ha) and includes more than 50 buildings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Long Island Jewish Medical Center</span> Hospital in New York, United States

Long Island Jewish Medical Center is a clinical and academic hospital within the Northwell Health system. It is a 807-bed, non-profit tertiary care teaching hospital serving the greater New York metropolitan area. The 48-acre (19 ha) campus is 15 miles (24 km) east of Manhattan, on the border of Queens and Nassau Counties, in Glen Oaks, Queens and Lake Success, New York, respectively.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">North Shore University Hospital</span> Hospital in New York, United States

North Shore University Hospital is a part of Northwell Health, New York State's largest healthcare provider and private employer. It is one of two primary teaching hospitals for the Zucker School of Medicine, offering residency programs, postgraduate training programs and clinical fellowships. It is located in Manhasset, New York, in Nassau County, on Long Island.

In medicine, a prodrome is an early sign or symptom that often indicates the onset of a disease before more diagnostically specific signs and symptoms develop. More specifically, it refers to the period between the first recognition of a disease's symptom until it reaches its more severe form. It is derived from the Greek word prodromos, meaning "running before". Prodromes may be non-specific symptoms or, in a few instances, may clearly indicate a particular disease, such as the prodromal migraine aura.

Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, commonly known as Royal Park is a former Receiving House and Psychiatric Hospital located in Parkville. Operating for over 90 years, Royal Park Hospital was the first psychiatric hospital established in Victoria after the Lunacy Act of 1903, and was intended for patients with curable disorders. Built on the north-western edge of the 181 hectare parklands known as Royal Park, Royal Park Hospital along with Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Children's Hospital and Mount Royal formed the Parkville Hospital Precinct. Following the hospital's closure in the 1990s, several of the hospital's original buildings have been listed on the Victorian Heritage Register for their historic and architectural values.

Early intervention in psychosis is a clinical approach to those experiencing symptoms of psychosis for the first time. It forms part of a new prevention paradigm for psychiatry and is leading to reform of mental health services, especially in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Barbara A. Cornblatt is Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. She is known for her research on serious mental disorders, with a specific focus on psychosis and schizophrenia. Her efforts to find treatments to help youth with mental illness led to the development of the Recognition and Prevention Program, which she founded in 1998.

Political abuse of psychiatry, also known as punitive psychiatry, refers to the misuse of psychiatric diagnosis, detention, and treatment to suppress individual or group human rights in society. This abuse involves the deliberate psychiatric diagnosis of individuals who require neither psychiatric restraint nor treatment, often for political purposes.

Childhood schizophrenia is similar in characteristics of schizophrenia that develops at a later age, but has an onset before the age of 13 years, and is more difficult to diagnose. Schizophrenia is characterized by positive symptoms that can include hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech; negative symptoms, such as blunted affect and avolition and apathy, and a number of cognitive impairments. Differential diagnosis is problematic since several other neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, language disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, also have signs and symptoms similar to childhood-onset schizophrenia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zucker School of Medicine</span> Medical school of Hofstra University

The Zucker School of Medicine is the medical school of Hofstra University in the town of Hempstead on Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York. The academic institution was established in 2008 by Hofstra University and the North Shore-LIJ Hospital system which was rebranded as Northwell Health in 2015. The Zucker School of Medicine enrolls 99 students each year and offers an MD and PhD. It also offers a joint MD—PhD degree; joint MD—MPH ; joint MD—MBA ; and joint MD—OMS. It also offers a dual-degree "4+4" program comprising an undergraduate degree followed by automatic matriculation to the School of Medicine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Basic symptoms of schizophrenia</span> Subjective symptoms of schizophrenia

Basic symptoms of schizophrenia are subjective symptoms, described as experienced from a person's perspective, which show evidence of underlying psychopathology. Basic symptoms have generally been applied to the assessment of people who may be at risk to develop psychosis. Though basic symptoms are often disturbing for the person, problems generally do not become evident to others until the person is no longer able to cope with their basic symptoms. Basic symptoms are more specific to identifying people who exhibit signs of prodromal psychosis (prodrome) and are more likely to develop schizophrenia over other disorders related to psychosis. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder, but is not synonymous with psychosis. In the prodrome to psychosis, uncharacteristic basic symptoms develop first, followed by more characteristic basic symptoms and brief and self-limited psychotic-like symptoms, and finally the onset of psychosis. People who were assessed to be high risk according to the basic symptoms criteria have a 48.5% likelihood of progressing to psychosis. In 2015, the European Psychiatric Association issued guidance recommending the use of a subscale of basic symptoms, called the Cognitive Disturbances scale (COGDIS), in the assessment of psychosis risk in help-seeking psychiatric patients; in a meta-analysis, COGDIS was shown to be as predictive of transition to psychosis as the Ultra High Risk (UHR) criteria up to 2 years after assessment, and significantly more predictive thereafter. The basic symptoms measured by COGDIS, as well as those measured by another subscale, the Cognitive-Perceptive basic symptoms scale (COPER), are predictive of transition to schizophrenia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Long Island Jewish Forest Hills</span> Hospital in New York, United States

Long Island Jewish Forest Hills is a teaching hospital operating under the Northwell Health hospital network. It is located in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. The hospital is affiliated with the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, which sponsors a residency program in internal medicine. The hospital also serves as the host of a podiatry residency program.

John M. Kane is an American psychiatrist who served as the Chair of Psychiatry at the Zucker Hillside Hospital for 34 years. He also served as the Chair of Psychiatry at The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell for its first 12 years. He stepped down from these roles in 2022 to focus his efforts on his research and mentorship of early career investigators as co-director, Institute of Behavioral Science at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, part of Northwell Health.

Numerous studies around the world have found a relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health. There are higher rates of mental illness in groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES), but there is no clear consensus on the exact causative factors. The two principal models that attempt to explain this relationship are the social causation theory, which posits that socioeconomic inequality causes stress that gives rise to mental illness, and the downward drift approach, which assumes that people predisposed to mental illness are reduced in socioeconomic status as a result of the illness. Most literature on these concepts dates back to the mid-1990s and leans heavily towards the social causation model.

Syosset Hospital is a short term community hospital located in Syosset, New York. The hospital has 136 beds and is affiliated with the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. The hospital is a member of Northwell Health.

References

  1. ↑ "Zucker Hillside Hospital, Treatment Center, Glen Oaks, NY". Psychology Today . June 27, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Naomi Rau, Thomas Goldman". The New York Times . October 12, 2003. Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y., a division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center
  3. ↑ "The Zucker Hillside Hospital". Architect Magazine . 223-bed psychiatric facility
  4. ↑ Reed Abelson (November 13, 2006). "Without Popular Appeal, a Hospital Program Can Suffer". The New York Times . renamed the Zucker Hillside Hospital.
  5. 1 2 Nicholas Bakalar (August 17, 2015). "1940: Electroshock Therapy". The New York Times . The hospital has pioneered in the use of .. electric shock treatment
  6. ↑ Lucy Freeman (October 1, 1948). "Hillside Hospital Aid Mentally Ill with Modified Psychoanalysis, It Reports, 85% of Patients Get Well or Improve". The New York Times .
  7. 1 2 "Hospital Complex Is Formed by Merger". The New York Times . November 21, 1971. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ "HILLSIDE HOSPITAL TO SEEK $1,500,000; $100,000 Pledge Opens Drive-- Plan to Enlarge Plant Is Outlined at Dinner. CHILD CARE CONTEMPLATED Mental Institution Also Proposes to Set Up Cottage Community, Dr. Israel Strauss Tells 500. Much Mental Illness Curable. Shows Development Plans. To Build Cottage Community". The New York Times . November 26, 1928. Retrieved November 29, 2020. the Hastings Hillside Hospital, an institution for the care and treatment of curable nervous and mental diseases
  9. 1 2 3 "Hillside Hospital Welcomes to City; $700,000 Institution Formerly in Westchester Opened on Site in Queens". The New York Times . October 20, 1941.
  10. ↑ "Jewish Sanatorium to extend its work: Hastings Hillside Hospital for the Mentally Ill Plans Appeal for Funds. WAS OPENED LAST JUNE Facilities Now Inadequate, Says Head of Mental Health Society -- Free Service to the Poor". The New York Times . December 4, 1927.
  11. ↑ "Dr. Israel Strauss, Noted Jewish Physician, Dies in New York". JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). April 6, 1955. president and founder of Hillside Hospital and of the Committee for Mental Hygiene
  12. ↑ "Israel Strauss, Physician, Dead; Neuro-Psychiatrist, 81, Was President of the Society of Hillside Hospital in Queens". The New York Times . April 5, 1955.
  13. ↑ "$120M Inpatient Psychiatric Pavilion Opens at Zucker Hillside Hospital". December 11, 2012.
  14. 1 2 Hal Borland (December 17, 1939). "Pioneers in Mental Health Expand Program; Hillside Hospital to Build New Plant to Carry on Modern Methods". The New York Times .
  15. ↑ "Hillside Hospital to Expand". The New York Times . March 28, 1948.
  16. ↑ "Cornerstone is laid at Hillside Hospital". The New York Times . October 25, 1948.
  17. ↑ William R. Conklin (October 24, 1949). "Dewey Dedicates New Hospital Unit; Addition of Lowenstein Pavilion to Queens Institution Hailed as Aid to Mental Hygiene". The New York Times . at Hillside Hospital
  18. ↑ Natalie Jaffe (October 31, 1965). "Queens Mental Hospital Patients Help Set Rules for Themselves; System of Self-Government Aids in Improving Morale at Voluntary Institution". The New York Times .
  19. ↑ "About RAP". Archived from the original on April 16, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  20. ↑ Cornblatt, B.A. & Keilp, J.G. (1994). Impaired attention, genetics, and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 20(1):31-46
  21. ↑ Cornblatt, B.A., Lencz, T., Smith, C.W., Correll, C.U., Auther, A.M., Nakayama, E. (2003). The schizophrenia prodrome revisited: A neurodevelopmental perspective. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 29(4):633-651
  22. ↑ Cornblatt, B.A & Auther, A.M. (2005). Treating early psychosis: Who, what, and when? Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 7(1):39-49
  23. ↑ Cornblatt, B.A., Lencz, T., Smith, C.W., Olsen, R., Auther, A.M., Nakayama, E., et al. (2007). Can antidepressants be used to treat the schizophrenia prodrome? Results of a prospective, naturalistic treatment study of adolescents. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 68(4):546-557
  24. ↑ Cornblatt, B.A, Auther, A.M., Niendam, T., Smith, C.W., Zinberg, J., Bearden, C.E., Cannon, T.D. (2007). Premlinary findings for two new measures of social and role functioning in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia.[ citation needed ] Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(3):688-702
  25. ↑ Auther, A.M., Gillett, D.A. & Cornblatt, B.A. (2008). Expanding the boundaries of early intervention for psychosis: Intervening during the prodrome. Psychiatric Annals, 38(8):528-537
  26. ↑ "Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research | Northwell Health". feinstein.northwell.edu.
  27. ↑ Cannon, T.D., Cadenhead, K., Cornblatt, B., Woods, S.W., Addington, J., Walker, E., Seidman, L.J., Perkins, D., Tsuang, M., McGlashan, T., & Heinssen, R. (2008). Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: A multisite longitudinal study in North America. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(1):28-37.
  28. ↑ Steven J. Taylor (2009). Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors. ISBN   978-0-8156-0915-5.
  29. ↑ "Recreation Center Opens: Former Patients Add to Facilities at Hillside Hospital". The New York Times . October 26, 1942. Retrieved November 30, 2020. in honor of Dr. Louis Wender, medical director of the hospital
  30. ↑ "League for Mental Health, Inc". DOS.ny.gov (New York Department of State). September 2, 2020. Previous Names: League for Mental Health, Inc; Wender Welfare League
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.