Augusta Health Crossroads Mental Health Unit

Augusta Health Crossroads Mental Health Unit

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Seniors or older adults

Treatment Approaches

• Individual psychotherapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Group therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Activity therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Type of Care

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

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

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

• Private non-profit organization

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Education services
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Family psychoeducation
• Intensive case management
• Integrated primary care services

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicare
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicaid
• County or local government funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Cash or self-payment
• Community Service Block Grants
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Other State funds
• Private health insurance

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Pharmacotherapies

• Chlorpromazine
• Perphenazine
• Fluphenazine
• Risperidone
• Prochlorperazine
• Olanzapine
• Ziprasidone
• Aripiprazole
• Asenapine
• Lurasidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Quetiapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Droperidol
• Cariprazine
• Paliperidone
• Loxapine
• Haloperidol
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Clozapine

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital