Behavioral Health Services
Resolving mental and emotional health challenges requires special care. At Gadsden Regional Medical Center, we focus on helping individuals achieve optimal mental health in a professional, caring environment. Our behavioral health team strives to provide a supportive environment and community to enable individuals struggling with mental illnesses or disorders to learn how to cope with the problems and pressures they face. We offer individualized behavioral health treatment in a safe, supportive environment, and develop treatment plans to meet the unique needs of each person.
Gadsden Regional Medical Center offers a wide range of behavioral health treatment services and resources for adult and geriatric patients. We have separate units for both populations and serve both voluntary and involuntary admitted patients with a primary psychiatric diagnosis. Our programs focus on providing acute psychiatric stabilization and treatment.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, your behavioral health treatment team may consist of:
- psychiatrists
- nursing staff
- social workers
- counselors/therapists
- ancillary department staff - rehabilitation services, respiratory, pharmacy, dietary
Adult Inpatient Program
Gadsden Regional Medical Center's adult inpatient program is a 34-bed secure area, serving patients between the ages of 19 and 65. Discharge planning is provided and considered essential in the patient’s mental health plan of care.
For referrals and admission criteria, please call our 24/7 line at (833) 217-8830.
Pathways: Geriatric Inpatient Program
The Pathways program is a 15-bed secure area serving patients 65 and older. Younger patients may be deemed appropriate for admission to Pathways if they require major assistance with daily living activities and/or are considered to be severely cognitively impaired. Discharge planning includes placement and follow-up care as deemed necessary by the multidisciplinary team and plan of care.
For referrals and admission assistance, please call our intake coordinator at (833) 217-8830.