Full psychiatric care for children and teenagers
Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health. Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital
The Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (IPSMarañón) provides comprehensive care to patients.
This comprehensive care is framed in five main axes: short hospitalization units, day hospitals, specific outpatient care programs, general outpatient care consultations at the mental health centers of Moratalaz / Vicálvaro and Retiro, and the psychiatry and psychology program consultation and liaison clinic. It also develops an important teaching and research activity to help improve the quality of life of people with mental disorders and their families, in addition to promoting the personal and professional development of its human team.
Within outpatient care, among others, prestigious programs on the table: AMI-TEA (Comprehensive Medical Care-Autism Spectrum Disorders), UMERP (Unit for Minors at Mental Risk), PIENSA (Intervention Program in Adolescent Psychosis), ATRAPA (Actions for the Treatment of Personality in Adolescence). PRECAPD (Community Alcohol and Dual Pathology Program), PRICES y PRISUME (Suicide Risk Attention Programs), GENETICS and PSYCHIATRICS (Attention to mental health problems of people with genetic pathologies), USMS (Mental health unit for deaf people), TCA CLINIC (Eating Disorders) or a program for the complex diagnosis of autism or the most recent, of prevention in people at high risk of psychosis.
Why is it excellent?
El commitment to excellence characterizes all professionals from high school.
Is best psychiatric hospital nationwide according to the Hospital Excellence Index (IEH) in 2018 and 2019, and the best Psychiatry Service according to the Health Reputation Monitor (MRS) during the last 6 years (2014-2020), prepared with about 3.200 surveys to professionals of the health, patients and experts, to which is added the objective analysis of more than 900 quality indicators and clinical management. He has recently obtained the Best in Class Award (BIC) 2017 for the Best Psychiatry Service and the Best in Class Award (BIC) 2019 in the Specialty of Schizophrenia, as well as the Avedis Donabedian Award in Mental Health and Addictions in 2018. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service is the first in Spain to have more than 500 points in the EFQM excellence assessment and the Madrid Excellent Recognition.
Adolescent Hospitalisation Unit
Assistance programme that fosters the research on and treatment of personality in adolescence
Personalised medical care for children and teenagers
First full medical care unit devoted to autism spectrum disorders
International scientific publications and research projects
Assistance programme that promotes the early treatment of adolescent psychosis
Innovation
The commitment to innovation has guided the trajectory of the Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health since its inception. In the care aspects, innovation has been possible by combining collaboration with patient and family associations with presence in national and international scientific forums. This has allowed us to respond to the needs of our population from excellence, for example, developing instruments that facilitate medical care to people with autism like the web Doctor TEA website, that has had the support of the Orange Foundation and the Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Hospital Gregorio Marañón, or including new assistance techniques such as the presence of therapy dogs on different devices, which has been very well received.
The IPSMarañón also promotes the implementation of innovative research aspects in the daily care of patients. The THINK program, that cares for adolescents with psychosis and their families, was developed as a research project. By proving effective, it was included in our portfolio of services, being open to the entire Community of Madrid. Prestigious international centers have adopted this program in their assistance. In line with the research carried out in other prestigious centers worldwide, a Prevention Program for people at risk of psychosis is currently being developed that combines clinical and research aspects.
The IPSMarañon develops a prolific research activityBeing international reference in various pathologies such as psychotic disorders, dual pathology and autism. The Institute coordinates the Neuroscience and Mental Health program of the Institute for Biomedical Research of the Hospital Gregorio Marañón, the European Network of Neuropsychopharmacology of Children and Adolescents (ECAPN) and the Mental Health Program of Children and Adolescents of the CIBER de Salud Mental. Coordinates and participates in multiple public and private research projects with high scientific output, many of them funded by the European Commission and the US National Institute of Health. Right now IPSMarañón is the European coordinating center for clinical trials of new molecules for Autism Spectrum disorders; In addition, apps are being developed to manage the clinic of patients. Regarding care, it has professors assigned to the Complutense University of Madrid, being one of the first hospitals in Spain in preference of choice of the MIR.
During the last years the IPSMarañón has been recognized with different awards for commitment, respect and discretion towards the user, the continuous improvement of its processes, the participatory management, sustainability and sensitivity, comprehensive quality in response to user expectations and their search for excellence in teaching and research. Among the numerous recognitions that have been awarded are management awards, recognition of the work of outstanding professionals and recognition by user associations, among others. Other achievements include leadership in national and international scientific forums and publications in the highest impact medical journals.
Some figures
- 69.787 annual consultations
- 414 scheduled admissions per year to an inpatient unit
- 642 urgent psychiatric admissions
- 3.047 psychiatric consultations
- 12 outpatient programs for specific pathologies, several of reference for the entire Community of Madrid.
- 42 annual research projects
- 93 annual scientific publications in national and international journals with an annual impact factor of 674.
- 49.332 visits to the
- 3.387 followers on twitter.
- Patient satisfaction rates at levels of excellence maintained over the last 10 years.
