Medical Services

Medical Services Department

The Medical Services Department of the Community Mental Health Center of Lancaster County provides psychiatric care to appropriate CMHC patients via a biopsychosocial approach. The mission of this Department is to evaluate and render treatment in the most effective manner possible to assist patients in extracting their maximum level of productivity and joy from life.

• Acting Medical Director - Sanat Roy M.D., D. F.A.P.A.
• Medication Management - The Medical Services program provides individual as well as group education to stress the importance of responsible and consistent compliance with medications. The purpose of medication management services is to decrease symptoms related to mental illness by assessing, prescribing medication and monitoring therapeutic effects and side effects. Regular medication review and teaching reinforces wellness and achievement towards the goals of this program; which are to modify symptoms of mental illness and to increase the patient's insight regarding his/her illness and how to effectively manage their illness, side effects, etc.
• Intensive Treatment - Medical Services has psychiatric coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The availability of inpatient hospital access as well as partial hospitalization services meets the need for those patients whose symptoms exacerbate to the point of necessitating more intensive treatment.
• Access to Care - Patients are screened and gain access to this program once it is determined that they meet the general criteria set forth by the Community Mental Health Center of Lancaster County and are an active CMHC patient. Referrals for Medication Management come from Outpatient and Community Support programs. These programs have interdisciplinary staffings where individuals are admitted to the program and identified as appropriate referrals to Medication Management.