This is a patient information hand out I received upon my arrival at Johns Hopkins.
 

WELCOME TO MEYER 4

 
Meyer 4 is one of the four separate Inpatient Units of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Service. It is a specialty unit for affective disorders and eating disorders. The unit functions on the basis of an interdisciplinary team approach working together with you and your family in implementing your individual treatment plan. The members of your treatment team working under the direction of an attending physician are:
 
                Attending physician: ________________Nurse Manager:___________________
 
                Resident Physician: ___________________ Social Worker. ________________

                Primary Nurse:_______________________ Associate Nurse:_______________
 
                Occupational Therapist: _________________Nutritionist:__________________
 
 
                Telephones: Nurses Station:
 
                Patient Pay Phones:
 
                                Front DayArea:
                                Back Activity Room:
                                Patients Hallway:
 
Patient phones are limited in use to the hours of 8AM-11PM. Please limit calls to 15 minutes at a time in consideration of others.
 
VISITING HOURS: Monday/Wednesday/Friday    6PM-7PM
                                   Tuesday/Thursday:  6PM-8PM
                                   SaturdaylSunday/Holidays:  12PM-8PM
 
Children and infants must be under the supervision of parents or guardians. Parents or guardians of patients under the age of 18 years must provide the staff with a written list of approved visitors.
 
MEDICATIONS: On admission, medications will be ordered by your Meyer 4 physicians. Please arrange to send home any medications (prescribed or over-the-counter medications) brought with you. All medications will be administered to you on a daily basis by nursing staff. No medications are allowed to be kept in your room, (unless an exceptional doctor's order is given. Please take note of the times they are ordered. It is important to keep them on schedule. We encourage you to learn all you can from your physicians and nurses about your medications.
 
VALUABLES: Please send all valuables home. If not possible, hospital security will place your valuables in the Admitting Office safe and give you a receipt for retrieval. We advise keeping a small amount of case to use for laundry, magazines, sundries, etc. You can purchase items in the gift shop located on the first floor of the hospital.
 

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