Senior Behavioral Health Unit Admissions

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Admissions for patients 55 years and older are accepted 24 hours per day every day. Anyone can begin a referral to our SBHU including patients themselves, friends and family members, primary care physicians, hospitals and clinics, social services agencies, clergy, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and long term care facilities.

Before admission, we perform a free, confidential screening to ensure the patient is medically stable and meets our unit’s criteria for admission.

Please notify the legal guardian of need for an inpatient psychiatric bed prior to calling. To help us better serve you, please have the following information available when you call:

• Patient’s date of birth
• Insurance information
• Social Security number
• Prescription drug names/dosages
• Pharmacy name/phone number
• Legal guardianship information (if applicable)
• Durable Power of Attorney information (if applicable)
• Psychiatrist name (if applicable)

We will ask the following questions regarding the patient:

• Medical issues
• Safety concerns (reason for admission)
• Appetite/weight gain or loss
• Quality and quantity of sleep
• Personal hygiene
• Mood
• Recent stressors 
• Substance use
• Current living situation
• Current and past verbal/physical aggression