Behavioral Health Services: Inpatient Services

In addition to providing a comprehensive range of outpatient mental health services, the University Hospitals Behavioral Health Institute offers such inpatient services as urgent assessment and consultation services.

Urgent Assessment

UH Behavioral Health Institute provides emergency psychiatric assessment and treatment. Referrals for these services are available through:

• An Emergency Psychiatric Assessment Team: provides on-site and virtual assessment and centralized referral services in UH Emergency Departments across the system
• Rapid Access Clinics: provide rapid assessment and stabilization of both adults and children referred by UH primary care physicians
• Acute Inpatient Services: UH provides acute inpatient services through eight system and joint venture (JV) facilities, together comprising more than 200 beds. These facilities serve the needs of children, adolescents, adults and geriatrics with cognitive, behavioral and psychiatric conditions. Additionally, UH offers the only specialized Med/Psych services in Ohio dedicated to the care of adults with acute psychiatric and medical conditions too severe to be adequately treated in a medical or psychiatric setting alone.

Consultation Services

We offer inpatient psychiatry and addiction consultation (in person and virtual) to medical and surgical patients at most UH hospitals.

Psychiatric symptoms are often present in patients receiving medical or surgical care. Through our Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry services, we offer comprehensive care for patients with co-occurring psychiatric and medical symptoms. These psychiatric symptoms include:

• Anxiety or depression caused by medical issues
• Acute confusion associated with delirium (mental status changes)
• Substance withdrawal during a lengthy hospitalization

Furthermore, specialized on-site consultation and co-management of psychiatric conditions is offered within many of our UH service lines, including UH Seidman Cancer Center, UH Transplant Institute, UH Nutritional Health & Bariatric Surgery Center, Sleep Medicine and UH Foley Elderhealth Center.