The Psychiatric Emergency Center is a state of the art facility located on the 10th floor of John Peter Smith’s Main Building. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers and support personnel provide services 24 hours a day, seven days a week for both voluntary and involuntary patients in mental health crisis. This center provides triage, evaluation, and admission services. It also contains a walk-in medication clinic to assist those patients who are established patients but need additional medication or evaluation.
Services include:
- Psychiatric Triage
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Short-term interventions including observation, stabilization, and monitoring
- Referral services
- Evaluation for Admission to JPS inpatient services
- Walk-in medication clinic to assist those who are established patients but need additional medication