Halifax Health Adult Psychiatry

Halifax Health Adult Psychiatry

Services:
Language Services
• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Children/Adolescents

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team

Pharmacotherapies

• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Nicotine replacement
• Olanzapine
• Aripiprazole
• Clozapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Risperidone
• Chlorpromazine

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Local, county, or community government

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Ancillary Services

• Chronic disease/illness management
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Legal advocacy
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Family psychoeducation
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Treatment Approaches

• Couples/family therapy
• Group therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Activity therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Dialectical behavior therapy

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicaid
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• County or local government funds
• Medicare
• Private health insurance

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted