Emergency Mental Health Services

If you or a loved one is experiencing a medical emergency, including a drug or medication overdose, call 9-1-1 immediately.

Through the Emergency Department entrance, Spring View Hospital provides emergency mental health services for individuals experiencing a crisis, such as risk of harm to self or others, significant emotional or behavioral changes, or impending or active substance withdrawal symptoms.

What We Treat in Emergency Mental Health Care

Like medical emergencies, mental health emergencies can occur unexpectedly. Emergency help is necessary for those whose clinical presentation requires treatment in an inpatient setting for their health and safety, such as:

• Suicidal or homicidal thoughts, plans or actions
• Chronic and continued self-destructive behaviors that pose a significant and/or immediate threat to life, limb or bodily function
• Self-mutilation, actual or threatened
• Assaultive, threatening behaviors or significant verbal threat to safety of others
• Auditory and visual hallucinations
• Paranoia and/or delusional thoughts
• Disorientation or memory loss due to an acute mental health disorder that endangers the welfare of self or others
• Inability to maintain adequate self-care, severely impaired functioning, or dangerous life-threatening situations related to mental health
• Imminent or active withdrawal symptoms, such as tremors, confusion or GI disturbances that require 24-hour medical monitoring and intervention to minimize potential medical complications

What to Expect

Upon arrival, our compassionate staff will help patients feel welcome and comfortable while collecting basic demographic details and performing basic screenings, including vital signs.

Effective mental health care, including emergency psychiatric help, begins with a confidential assessment to discuss a patient’s physical, mental, social and emotional health history with a member of our experienced staff. The initial assessment helps our compassionate behavioral health team understand concerns and other health issues to help the patient find the most effective path to mental wellness.

Upon completion and review of the assessment, our medical team will recommend an appropriate plan of care to ensure safety and well-being. Our treatment is designed to stabilize a patient’s mental health, understand the root cause of concerns, develop healthy coping and maintenance strategies to move forward, and work to coordinate an appropriate network of continuing care in our community upon discharge.