About Ardmore Chickasaw Health Clinic – Ardmore
The Ardmore Chickasaw Health Clinic is located in Chickasaw, Oklahoma. They provide behavioral health and substance use services to Chickasaw citizens and First Americans who are patients of the Chickasaw Nation Department of Health.
They provide mental health interventions and emergency crisis help for people of any age and entire families. You need to provide a citizenship card, birth certificate or driver’s license to be eligible to receive help from this program.
They accept physician and agency referrals as well as from others like nurses. Referrals can be for residential and substance use treatment. Their crisis intervention program is available after hours, and on weekends and holidays. They also have a zero suicide commitment pledge for their behavioral health systems.
They have a psychiatric service team that will give you an evaluation to diagnose and provide pharmacological treatment for several mental illnesses. Mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorders.
They also help with mood disorders associated with substance abuse and dependency, insomnia, ADD/ADHD, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder, among other issues like disruptive behavior disorder and autistic disorders.
The service team of psychiatrists, psychiatric care coordinators, and a psychiatric nurse work together to help assess, evaluate and provide medication management for each patient. They also do telemedicine appointments to broaden access to care.
To be eligible for the psychiatric program, you must have a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood from a tribe that’s federally recognized, a citizenship card, and proof of guardianship must be provided for minors.