The Wrap - Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program
·24 min
1. The Wrap by Michigan Medicine Headlines focuses on the new child and adolescent partial hospitalization program at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
2. Dan Ellman and Bailey Mirzik host Dr. Joanna Quigley, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and Dr. Christina Laettner, a child psychologist, because they helped build the program.
3. The episode asks how a partial hospitalization program fits between outpatient care and inpatient hospitalization for youth.
4. Dr. Quigley says the program fills a gap in Michigan Medicine for general child and adolescent psychiatric care.
5. She explains that families may start with a pediatrician or family medicine doctor, then move to outpatient specialists such as social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, or nurse practitioners.
6. Dr. Quigley says some youth need more support than weekly therapy or monthly psychiatry but do not need overnight hospitalization.
7. The program runs five days a week and sends patients home at night.
8. Dr. Quigley says it also helps youth transition out of hospital or residential care and back to outpatient treatment.
9. Dr. Laettner says the program was designed to keep teaching coping skills and family support consistent across levels of care.
10. She says that consistency matters because children may move between services within the same system.
11. Dr. Laettner says the initial age range is 12 to 17.
12. She names depression, mood disorders, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma exposure, and substance use as common presenting issues.
13. She says partial hospitalization is for youth who are struggling to function in school or at home.
14. Dr. Laettner says the program will include 30 therapeutic groups per week.
15. She says the group-heavy format means patients must be able to attend safely and absorb the curriculum.
16. Dr. Laettner walks through the day: staff meet at a table before 8:45, children arrive for breakfast, and the day begins with goals and a mindfulness activity.
17. She says the schedule includes educational instruction five days a week, DBT, lunch, rec time, CBT, social media literacy, safety planning, and substance use groups.
18. Dr. Quigley says the program will reach 24 adolescents at full census and start with four to eight children.
19. The conversation feels clinical, practical, and collaborative, with both guests giving detailed descriptions of staffing, structure, and program design.
20. Listeners interested in child psychiatry, adolescent treatment, and Michigan Medicine’s new services will get the most from it.
