About UK Good Samaritan Hospital – Lexington
University of Kentucky, UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital provides a wide range of medical services for clients in Lexington, Kentucky. Their Behavioral Health Unit offers inpatient psychiatric care within the UK HealthCare system for adults and adolescents.
In this unit, they specialize in helping people with acute mental illness, including co-occurring addictions. Their treatment periods are typically short, so think days as opposed to months. They provide leading edge mental health treatment and strive to continually advance their model of care.
They recently moved their Adolescent Unit, which is called the Pediatric Behavioral Health Unit, to a new space at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. They have private and semi-private rooms to care for those aged 17 and under who are struggling with behavioral health problems.
The Adult Unit is a 19 bed area that helps adults who may have been diagnosed with a number of psychiatric issues like mood or anxiety disorders, personality or thought disorders, and or substance use disorder (SUD).
All of their Behavioral Health Unit staff have special certifications such as Basic Life Support, Crisis Prevention Intervention and Suicide Assessment and Prevention.
Good Samaritan also works in collaboration with Eastern State Hospital (ESH) which provides recovery focused acute mental health care. At ESH, they help people 18 and over who are diagnosed with any number of psychiatric mental health issues.
They also have a recovery center here that provides Personal Care Homes for people with severe and persistent mental illnesses. One former patient said they helped them in their darkest time and the staff is amazing.
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