About Outpatient Behavioral Health | University of Michigan Health-Sparrow – Lansing
The University of Michigan Health – Sparrow Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic is located at the hospital’s St. Lawrence Campus in Lansing, Michigan. Here, they provide outpatient behavioral health and psychiatric services for those in need. They also treat co-occurring disorders.
The Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic Program helps people who are dealing with temporary, short term behavioral issues that are making their life hard to manage. They have a diverse group of psychiatrists who can treat several different psychiatric conditions and can help with mental health and substance abuse problems.
Their services extend to children, adolescents, adults and seniors experiencing mental health issues and struggling with substance abuse. They pride themselves on being a leader for Mid-Michigan’s mental health care.
The outpatient program offers services like psychiatric evaluations and initial treatment plans, medication reviews and management, psychiatric consults, chemical dependency and addiction treatment and help with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
They also provide psychological help for medical issues like pain management and HDHD and help manage behavioral problems due to dementia. They have day and evening appointments available, and they encourage family members to attend or be involved.
UM Health Sparrow Lansing also has an emergency department for people who think they’re in danger of hurting themselves or others because of a psychiatric emergency. There they will have a psychiatric social worker or nurse check to see if you need, or what type of mental health treatment is appropriate. They can refer you to one of their inpatient or outpatient programs among other options.
They could refer you to their partial hospitalization program (PHP), outpatient behavioral health clinic, adult inpatient psychiatry unit, geriatric inpatient psychiatry unit, or behavioral health central access service (CAS).