Denver Mental Health

Denver, Colorado Mental Health

Denver Mental Health has a great asset known as Denver Health Behavioral Health Services. Denver Health gets more than $25 million in federal state and private health care research funding annually. This is one reason why Denver Mental Health has Behavioral Health services with ample facilities to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients. The facility offers over forty adult beds and thirteen adolescent beds. They have the capacity for the mentally ill, substance abuse disorders and dual diagnosis disorders. They offer inpatient and outpatient program care. This is a key factor when so many mentally ill patients tend to have a second diagnosis. Many physicians are on staff along with board certified social workers and nurses who are trained to work with the mentally ill and also trained in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs. Each program supervised by attending psychiatrists. Occupational therapy undergraduate and graduate students work with the patients in different programs as well, providing patients with hands on therapy. There is an additional off campus facility that holds 100 beds for patient detoxification from substance abuse. The detoxification facility works at motivating and counseling patients, to getting them back on their feet again. The program also has an emergency service patrol (ESP). Denver mental health operates the ESP program for public safety to pick up belligerent individuals off the streets or in public and safely bring them to the detoxification facility.

A sister to Denver Health and providing easier access to those that are in more desperate need is Denver Health Family Health Center. This center was opened to serve the needs of the poor and the severely mentally ill. They also help with substance abuse, suicide prevention and domestic violence. The Denver Health Center has been serving Denver, Colorado since 1860. The Denver Health Center is part of Colorado’s Community Health Centers. These CHC’S are non profit organizations that have been strategically placed in low income areas where many people do not have access to health care. Many health care providers are sent out to make medical visits to the community. Some of these centers are in the community and a few are placed within the school sites. One of the great advantages is providing services to millions of visitors seeking mental health programs. Visits to Denver mental health provide patients an opportunity to be seen by a doctor. Denver Health is located at 777 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80204 and can be reached by phone at 303-436-6000 or online at www.denverhealth.org.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill can be reached locally in Denver at 1100 Fillmore Street Suite 201 Denver, CO 80206-3334 or at www.namicolorado.org. NAMI can help you find local support group meetings and help find resources about your illness. You can find information and support groups specific to your illness.

Serving Denver Mental Health 24 hours a day/7days a week is also the Lis’n Crisis Hotline, a Professional Psychology Center:
Suicide / Depression Hotline 303-860-1200
Youth Support Line 303-894-9000