East Alabama Medical Center Department of Psychiatric Medicine

East Alabama Medical Center Department of Psychiatric Medicine

Services:
Age Groups Accepted
• Young Adults
• Children/Adolescents
• Adults

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Pharmacotherapies

• Fluphenazine
• Clozapine
• Loxapine
• Chlorpromazine
• Olanzapine
• Quetiapine
• Cariprazine
• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Haloperidol
• Nicotine replacement
• Paliperidone
• Ziprasidone
• Asenapine
• Lurasidone
• Aripiprazole

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Private non-profit organization

Treatment Approaches

• Activity therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Group therapy

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicare
• Other State funds
• State education agency funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Ancillary Services

• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Education services
• Family psychoeducation