Clara Maass Medical Center offers quality, patient-centered, behavioral health services. Our range of treatment options:
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Twenty voluntary beds are available for patients having acute psychiatric episodes, needing 24-hour nursing care.
The program is staffed with a team of behavioral health professionals, which include:
- A Medical Director
- Advanced Practice Nurses
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers
- Registered Nurses
- Bachelors Prepared Mental Health Associates
Our staff stay in close communication with referring physicians and other health professionals from the time the patient is admitted until discharge.
- Major Depression
- Schizophrenia and Selected Psychosis
- Anxiety Disorders
- Low Self Esteem
- Acting Out Behavior
- Abuse and Neglect
- Domestic Violence
- Grief and Loss
- Separation and Divorce
- Poor Social Skills
- Substance Abuse (secondary diagnosis)
We understand the decision to seek mental health services can be difficult, so we have designed our program with a single point of entry. Clara Maass is committed to quality patient care and will make every effort to assure you or a family member of a smooth transition into the appropriate level of care. From evaluation and assessment to discharge and follow-up, patients receive individualized treatment.
These services combined with other key components make the behavioral health services at Clara Maass Medical Center a sound choice.
- Single Point of Entry
- Intensive Individualized Treatment
- Free Immediate Level of Care
- Evaluation
- 24-Hour Crisis Intervention
- Individual and Group Therapy
- Family Therapy
Referrals and admissions to the Clara Maass Inpatient Unit may be made 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by calling the Saint Barnabas Behavioral Health Network Access Center at 1-800-300-0628.
- Anyone who has attempted or threatened suicide.
- Anyone who is difficult to manage in a residential or home setting.
- Anyone who has a stressor which precipitates an increase in acute psychiatric symptoms.
- Anyone with a history of poor medication compliance.
- For anyone who engages in dangerous or unsafe behaviors (i.e. substance abuse)
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