The Sunrise: Behavioral Health Clinic offers specialized care to older adults to address the unique emotional and psychological challenges associated with aging, medical illness, and life transitions on the campus of North Sunflower Medical Center. The program offers compassionate and structured care from our team lead by Margaret Cassada, MD, a psychiatrist with years of experience and specialized training providing care to older adults. Her team of licensed therapists, licensed social workers, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and RNs work together to help individuals improve emotional stability, coping, and strengthen sense of self increasing independence and quality of daily functioning.
The Sunrise is perfect for an individual to regain stability and recovery while maintaining independence with at least 9 group sessions and additional sessions available Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM.
Please reach out to The Sunrise if you or a loved one living at home, assisted living, and/or a nursing home is experiencing:
- Persistent sadness, worry, and/or loss of interest in daily activities of living
- Increased tearfulness
- Emotional distress from changes in independence/ abilities
- Difficulty concentrating
- Seeing, hearing, and/or thinking differently than others
- New or worsening medical diagnosis
- Anxiety/ increased worried thoughts
- Worring about health and increased stress resulting from monitoring health
- Difficulty returning home after inpatient treatment/ rehabilitation stay
- Grieving loss of a loved one
- Loss of interest in appearance
- Problems with taking medication/ lack of confidence in the purpose of medication
- Not wanting to face the day and increased thoughts of death and/or dying
Free assessment can be made in a person’s home and/or The Sunrise Clinic. For more information or to make a referral call (662) 756-1786.
Ginny Pantin, LCSW
Virginia “Ginny” Pantin – Licensed Clinical Social Worker with The Sunrise Clinic Intensive Outpatient program