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The primary
goal of the psychiatric inpatient service
is to provide top quality, short-term psychiatric
inpatient care to the citizens of North
Carolina in a compassionate, attentive,
cost-effective and clinically prudent manner.
At the present time, the primary clinical
focus of our inpatient services is on the
short-term stabilization of acute psychiatric
disorders emphasizing discharge and disposition
planning to help patients move quickly to
less restrictive alternatives of care. While
we provide detoxification services to substance
abusers as well as dual-diagnosis programming
where applicable, we do not provide
primary inpatient substance abuse treatment
at this time.
It is the
policy of UNC Hospitals and the Department
of Psychiatry to screen anyone requesting
admission. While we reserve the right to
deny admission based on clinical concerns,
it is against our policy to discriminate
against admission based on race, age, gender,
religion, ethnicity, other personal characteristics
or any combination of the above.
To
make a direct referral for admission to
the UNC Psychiatry Inpatient Program please
call the Admission's Office at 966-8721
from 8 AM to 10 PM Monday through Friday.
After 10 PM and on Weekends the Psychiatrist
On-Call can be contacted at 966-4131.
Patients
admitted to the NC Neurosciences Hospital
Adult Inpatient Service must meet, at the
very least, the five primary admission criteria
listed below:
1. The patient
must be an adult* (age 18 and over).
2. The patient must have an acute psychiatric
illness or acute exacerbation of a chronic
illness.
3. The patient must be able to benefit from
inpatient treatment here, and this should
be the least restrictive approach to treatment
for the patient.
4. The patient's behavior must be manageable
on our units.
5. The patient must be medically/neurologically
stable (in some cases patients may need
to be medically cleared prior to admission).
It is our
policy to try to manage and work with most
patients needing psychiatric hospitalization
especially if this is a first time admission.
Some patients, such as those with a demonstrated
propensity towards extreme violence and/or
a history of serious self or property-damaging
acting out while hospitalized are more safely
and appropriately managed at one of the
state hospitals. Other patients may need
to be medically stabilized in other units
of the hospital before transfer to psychiatry.
Under no circumstances will ethnicity, sex,
age(other than being under 18), religion
or other personal characteristics be used
as criteria in discriminating against admissions
to our adult units.
Payment and Insurance Information
Billing for services provided by UNC-CH
Department of Psychiatry physicians is handled
by UNC Physicians and Associates (UNCPA).
We accept payment through Medicare and Medicaid,
and we are a Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Cost-Wise service provider. We are also
contracted mental health service providers
for many health maintenance organizations
(HMOs), and we work with most major insurance
providers.
For more information about payment options,
please call 919-966-0089.
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