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HCMC's Acute
Psychiatric Services center serves those in emotional crisis with 24-hour,
seven-day-a-week crisis counseling, assessment, and referral. More than
42,000 calls and drop-in visits each year are handled by the Acute Psychiatric
Services staff of psychiatrists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses.
The APS is supported by Hennepin County funds and state grants, provides
these services to any person in need. It is the first and only hospital-based
crisis intervention center in the U.S. certified by the American Association
of Suicidology.
Acute Psychiatric
Services offers:
- 24-hour walk-in crisis intervention and treatment
of behavioral emergencies
- Suicide Hotline
(612) 873-2222, giving suicidal callers
hope through crisis counseling
- Crisis intervention phone service for assessment,
information, and referral for psychiatric emergencies. (612) 873-3161
- Treatment of psychiatric emergencies such as acute
psychotic conditions, panic states, severe and incapacitating depression,
suicidal crisis, danger to others, sudden loss of memory, and situations
involving grave mental disability.
- Community consultation and education on crisis
intervention.
Goals
- To provide immediate and around-the clock assistance
to emotionally disturbed persons.
- To prevent development of more serious psychiatric
disorders by early identification of, and intervention in,potentially
hazardous emotional crisis.
- To offer alternatives to institutionalization and
involuntary commitment by providing less costly and less disruptive
treatment or, when necessary, voluntary hospitalizations.
- To provide services which are immediate, accessible,
and acceptable. The Acute Psychiatric Services center is open 24 hours
a day, seven days a week, with phone and outreach services.
Treatment
Team
Psychiatrists, clinical nurse specialists, psychiatric
social workers, and psychiatric nurses.
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