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Crisis
Stabilization Program - Emergency Psychiatry
The
Emergency Psychiatry Service is a 24-hour
ER unit. The unit evaluates acutely disturbed
psychiatric and substance abuse patients
who present at the UNC Hospitals Emergency
Room, and is closely linked to the Crisis
Clinic. Emergency services are available
24 hours a day at UNC. During the day the
Psychiatrist-On-Call can be reached at 919-966-2025.
During Evenings, Nights, Weekends and Holidays,
the Psychiatrist-On-Call can be reached
by calling 919-966-4131. 24 hour Walk-In
Emergency Services are available through
the UNC Hospitals Emergency Room, which
is located on the bottom floor of the new
Neurosciences Hospital.
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The primary goal of the UNC Department of
Psychiatry Emergency Service is to provide
high quality emergency psychiatric evaluation
and disposition to the citizens of North
Carolina in a compassionate, attentive,
and clinically prudent manner. Patients
treated by the Emergency Service include
adults, adolescents, and children who present
voluntarily or on petition for commitment.
The Psychiatric Emergency Service also provides
consultation to patients being treated in
the UNC Emergency Department and to patients
referred by other UNC outpatient clinics.
Furthermore, our Emergency Service is committed
to evaluate all Orange-Person-Chatham (OPC)
patients in need of services secondary to
shortage of professional staff at any of
those sites.
It
is the policy of the Emergency Service to
evaluate any individual requesting our service.
It is against our policy to discriminate
against evaluation based on race, age, sex,
religion, ethnicity, other personal characteristics
or any combination of the above.
The
administrative and clinical management of
the Psychiatric Emergency Service is staffed
during working hours (Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) by a second year
resident and the attending on call. During
after-hours (from 4:30 p.m. until 8:30 a.m.
and weekends and holidays), the Psychiatric
Emergency Service is staffed by a first-year
resident, a second-year resident, and the
attending on call.
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