UofL Health – UofL Hospital is the region’s only specialty emergency room dedicated to the care, treatment and stabilization of patients with psychiatric disorders. We provide research-based, best-practice psychiatric and innovative care for adults with mental illness. We are skilled in treating psychiatric patients with co-morbid medical conditions that also require treatment, and our highly trained specialists provide a collaborative and comprehensive treatment approach.

Our staff serves as a crisis intervention team to stabilize patients in emergency situations. We offer a Treatment Observation Room (a psychiatric emergency room) and a 23-hour observation unit is for patients who require further stabilization before being discharged or transferred to the inpatient unit or another facility. We are able to check-in patients directly instead of via the main emergency room.

Our services include:

  • Acute crisis stabilization
  • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
  • Individual therapy
  • Group therapies
  • Acute substance abuse detoxification
  • Treatment of acute psychiatric symptoms
  • Psychiatric consultations to patients on the medical/surgery floors

About Our Inpatient Psych Unit

The inpatient psych unit is designed to offer patients more privacy, more space and enhanced care. The unit includes:

  • Family visitation room
  • 24/7 security
  • Large common area for patients
  • All private rooms
  • Skylight atrium

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Electroconvulsive therapy is recognized by the National Institute of Mental Health as a successful treatment option for patients with serious mental illness. ECT can be a treatment option when other treatments have been unsuccessful. ECT is a safe and effective treatment and has minimal side effects.

ECT is done in our surgical services suite in conjunction with anesthesiologists. We have staff that is dedicated to assist you from triage to recovery. The ECT team consists of an anesthesiologist, a board-certified psychiatrist and an ACLS-trained Registered Nurse.

Contact Us

UofL Hospital’s psychiatry staff members recognize the emotional as well as the physical symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders. If you need to speak with someone from Inpatient Psychiatry, please call 502-562-4680, or to reach Emergency Psychiatric Services, call 502-562-3120.

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