Bridgewater State Hospital Prison

I continue to "moonlight" at Bridgewater State Hospital. I began employment at Bridgewater State Hospital Prison (a state medium security prison), with emphasis on acute homicide/suicide risk assessments, comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, and initiating pharmacotherapy for the patients, who are also inmates. I cover the new admissions section of the prison, where people are delivered from local jails and prisons; and, I cover the 14 room Intensive Treatment Unit. The ITU is the most restrictive and behaviorally intensive unit in the entire prison facility—it is reserved for the highest risk (to self and/or others) patient inmates.


Here is a photograph that was available on the web of the ITU:














Here, also available on the web, is a photograph of the outside of BSH: