Admissions

Our facility provides free assessment and referral services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Friends, family members and referring professionals seeking treatment or information for children, adolescents or adults can call our Assessment and Referral Department at (574) 936-3784 for a free, confidential assessment.

A client is considered to meet acute criteria if they are in need of immediate stabilization due to a current threat of harm to himself/herself or others and the client exhibits one or more of the following behaviors:

• Suicidal/homicidal ideation
• Recent suicide attempt
• Recent self-harm behaviors
• Serious risk-taking, impulsive or dangerous behaviors
• Depressed mood with feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, social isolation or withdraw
• Aggressive or threatening behaviors
• Mood instability
• Property destruction which may endanger the safety of the client or others
• Bizarre behaviors/delusions (false thoughts/beliefs)/illusions (misperception or misinterpretation of a real external stimulus) that interfere with daily functioning ability
• Verbalization or demonstration of hallucinations (false perceptions)- visual (seeing), auditory (hearing), tactile (feeling), olfactory (smelling) and gustatory (tasting)
• Suspicion of or admission to alcohol or drug use that interferes with daily functioning ability
• Alcohol or drug dependence which requires a need for detoxification and assistance with withdrawal symptoms
• Disorientation or memory impairment which endangers the safety of the client or others
• Need for immediate medication adjustment due to medication ineffectiveness or severe side effects
• Failure of client to maintain in a current outpatient setting
• Basic needs (i.e.: food, shelter, etc.) are not being met due to the client's current psychiatric condition/substance use
• Explosive anger outbursts/ oppositional defiant behaviors which may endanger the safety of the client or others
• Severe anxiety/obsessive or compulsive behaviors which impairs functioning ability
• Promiscuity/sexual acting out which endangers the safety of the client or others