Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation Department of Behavioral Health

Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation Department of Behavioral Health

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Other Languages

• Creole
• French
• Japanese

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Pharmacotherapies

• Paliperidone
• Trifluoperazine
• Quetiapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Lurasidone
• Aripiprazole
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Ziprasidone
• Brexpiprazole
• Haloperidol
• Chlorpromazine
• Clozapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Olanzapine
• Cariprazine
• Risperidone

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

• Private non-profit organization

Treatment Approaches

• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Activity therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Electroconvulsive therapy

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Community Service Block Grants
• Cash or self-payment
• Medicare
• Other State funds
• County or local government funds
• Federal Grants
• Private or Community foundation
• Private health insurance

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Laboratory testing

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

• Outpatient
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Other languages (excluding Spanish)

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Intensive case management
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Suicide prevention services
• Supported employment
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Assertive community treatment
• Illness management and recovery
• Integrated primary care services

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital