Bryn Mawr Hospital Women 'Dine Alfresco' for Inpatient Psychiatry Unit

in Bryn Mawr was the scene on March 15 of “Dining Alfresco”, the Women’s Board of ’s third annual spring event. Catsy Michell and Mandy Swope were event co-chairs. Over 100 ladies turned out for the popular “fun/draiser” featuring cocktails, buffet, door prizes, shopping and cooking demonstrations. All proceeds, including a percentage of sales in Viking’s kitchen store, will benefit the hospital’s inpatient psychiatric unit.

On hand to salute the Women’s Board for the role they play as ambassadors to the hospital community were Hospital President Andi Gilbert; Medical Staff President Emma Simpson, MD; and Linda A. Ryan, MD, of Main Line Health Psychiatric Associates.

Celebrating 25 years of service in 2011, the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at Bryn Mawr Hospital is an acute care facility offering private psychiatric treatment in a secure, comfortable setting. Patients with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders are treated by a multidisciplinary treatment team. Staff is trained to assess and treat most acute psychiatric illnesses with the goal of helping the individual return to normal functioning and reclaim his or her life in the community. Patients who are abusing alcohol or other drugs in addition to having a psychiatric disorder may participate in the Dual-Diagnosis Treatment Program. Second year psychiatry residents from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and medical students from Thomas Jefferson University receive training on the unit.

Special thanks to Leslie Feldman, with Main Line Health, for providing this story.