Outpatient Psychiatry Consult Service
The Outpatient Psychiatry and Neurosciences Department is offering a new, interdisciplinary psychiatry consult service for all Mohawk Valley Health System Outpatient Primary Care and Specialty Service providers.
Overview of the Outpatient Psychiatry Consult Service
- Interdisciplinary team consisting of a Psychiatric attending, third-year Psychiatric resident and third-year Family Medicine resident.
- Provide non-urgent and urgent outpatient Psychiatric consultation services for all MVHS primary care and specialty practices.
- Non-urgent consults include questions about medication review, side effects, psychosocial influences, diagnostic considerations and other treatment recommendations.
- Consults are non-patient facing and are only a chart review/phone consultation with the provider when needed.
Urgent Consults and Questions
- If there are acute medication change questions that cannot wait for a Wednesday, a rotating on-call resident can answer urgent calls with his/her attending.
- This is not to assess danger to self or others – if that is a concern, contact MCAT at 315-732-6228 or call 9-1-1 to bring the patient to a hospital.
- Calls will be answered by the end of the business day.
- Call the Outpatient Psychiatry and Neurosciences Office at 315-624-4801 to have the request routed to the appropriate resident or attending, depending on urgency and availability.
Non-urgent Consults and Questions
- Send a staff message or secure chat to Dr. Stephen Hudyncia. Indicate the reason for the consult and a summary of your question.
- Consult requests are reviewed every Wednesday by the interdisciplinary team.
- You must inform your patient that you are consulting Psychiatry. The team will write a note in the chart that will be visible to the patient.
Questions?
- For questions about the Outpatient Psychiatry Consult Service contact Katherine Warden, PhD, at 315-286-1604 or at kwarden@mvhealthsystem.org.
- For questions about anything related to Psychiatry or mental health, such as medication questions, side effects, diagnostic criteria, resource connections and more, please send a staff message or secure chat to Dr. Stephen Hudyncia. Questions are reviewed every Wednesday.
