UAB Hospital Center for Psychiatric Medicine

UAB Hospital Center for Psychiatric Medicine

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• County or local government funds
• Private health insurance
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Community Service Block Grants
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicaid
• State education agency funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Medicare
• Cash or self-payment
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Other State funds

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Children/Adolescents
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient

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
• Substance use treatment

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• STD testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• TB screening
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• HIV testing

Ancillary Services

• Supported employment
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Assertive community treatment
• Illness management and recovery
• Integrated primary care services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Intensive case management
• Case management service

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Couples/family therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Group therapy
• Activity therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Ketamine Infusion Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy

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

• Private non-profit organization