Julian C. Duda, MD is a neurologist.
Sarah E. E. Phelps Ross, PharmD is a pharmacist.
Ashley M. Ono, MD is an internal medicine practitioner who practices internal medicine, student in an organized health care education/training program, and primary care medicine.
Karen V. Morgan, MD is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Robert G. Seeman, MD is an anesthesiologist.
Kim Hui, MD is an obstetrician & gynecologist.
Julian G. Lis, MD is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Sean Sevem, PharmD is a pharmacist.
Henry C. Yeager, MD is a hospital medicine doctor / hospitalist who practices hospital medicine, internal medicine, and primary care medicine.
Valerie C. Norton, MD is an emergency medicine practitioner.
Sonya K. Christianson, MD is a hospice and palliative family medicine practitioner.
Cheryl L. Spinweber is a sleep disorder diagnostic clinic who practices sleep disorder diagnostic clinic and sleep research.
Kristina Strong is a family nurse practitioner who practices family nurse practice and primary care medicine.
Paul J. Demeules, LCSW is a clinical social worker.
Emi Harris, NP is a family nurse practitioner who practices family nurse practice and primary care medicine.
Alexis Heard, RN is a critical care medicine registered nurse.
Nicole T. Martinez, FNP-BC is a family nurse practitioner who practices family nurse practice and primary care medicine.
Aleda C. Barr, RN is a registered psychiatric / mental health nurse.
Lorie A. Rohr, RN is a registered psychiatric / mental health nurse.
Sergio A. Villegas is a nurse practitioner.
James C. Oliver, II, NP is an acute care nurse practitioner.
Meghan Murphy is a clinical social worker.
Lauren Witbeck, LCSW is a clinical social worker who practices clinical social work and student in an organized health care education/training program.
Crystal M. Durgan, MFT is a marriage & family therapist.
Jennifer W. Pucci, NP is a family nurse practitioner who practices family nurse practice and primary care medicine.
Michelle Miller, LCSW is a clinical social worker.
Kellie Mclaughlin, RNFA is a registered first assistant nurse.

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Scripps Mercy Hospital Behavioral Health Unit has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since December 30, 2005 and its NPI numbers are 1154308005 (certified on 12/30/2005) , 1659359446 (certified on 01/03/2006) , 1356972798 , and 1306161914. Scripps Mercy Hospital Behavioral Health Unit is also known as Scripps Mercy Hospital (General Acute Care Hospital) and Andrew Nasseri Md, Inc (Surgeon Practice).

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Psychiatric Hospital Unit

In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; (2) For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The unit must furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning.

Psychiatric Hospital Units in Uptown, San Diego, CA