Author(s)

Nahla Mahgoub¹, Smita Agarkar¹, Michael Radosta², Francine Fakih², Brynne Delaney Calleran², Robert Clark², Deborah Cherubin², Faraj Faour², Donna Anthony¹

¹Weill Cornell Medicine/Gracie Square Hospital, New York, USA.
²Gracie Square Hospital, New York, USA.

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the mental health care. Treating psychiatric patients with COVID-19 poses multiple challenges in the inpatient psychiatric setting in terms of mitigating transmission of the virus. Gracie Square Hospital, a freestanding psychiatric hospital located in New York City, devoted a unit to treating COVID-19 patients requiring inpatient psychiatric treatment. This paper describes our experiences and challenges while managing the psychiatric COVID-19 unit that may serve as a model for other health care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Pandemic, Psychiatric Patients with COVID-19, COVID-19 Psychiatric Unit

Mahgoub, N. , Agarkar, S. , Radosta, M. , Fakih, F. , Calleran, B. , Clark, R. , Cherubin, D. , Faour, F. and Anthony, D. (2021) Experiences and Challenges While Managing the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit Dedicated for COVID-19 Patients. Open Journal of Psychiatry, 11, 12-19. doi: 10.4236/ojpsych.2021.111002.