Emergency Mental Health Services

If you or a loved one is experiencing a medical emergency, including a drug or medication overdose, call 9-1-1 immediately.

Through the Emergency Department entrance, Starr Regional Medical Center provides emergency mental health services for individuals experiencing a crisis, such as risk of harm to self or others, significant emotional or behavioral changes, or impending or active substance withdrawal symptoms.

What We Treat in Emergency Mental Health Care

Like medical emergencies, mental health emergencies can occur unexpectedly. Emergency help is necessary for those whose clinical presentation requires treatment in an inpatient setting for their health and safety, such as:

• • • Suicidal or homicidal thoughts, plans or actions
    • Chronic and continued self-destructive behaviors that pose a significant and/or immediate threat to life, limb or bodily function
    • Self-mutilation, actual or threatened
    • Assaultive, threatening behaviors or significant verbal threat to safety of others
    • Auditory and visual hallucinations
    • Paranoia and/or delusional thoughts
    • Disorientation or memory loss due to an acute mental health disorder that endangers the welfare of self or others
    • Inability to maintain adequate self-care, severely impaired functioning, or dangerous life-threatening situations related to mental health
    • Imminent or active withdrawal symptoms, such as tremors, confusion or GI disturbances that require 24-hour medical monitoring and intervention to minimize potential medical complications

What to Expect

Upon arrival, our compassionate staff will help patients feel welcome and comfortable while collecting basic demographic details and performing basic screenings, including vital signs.

Starr Regional Medical Center's Emergency Departments provide timely crisis management and critical healthcare to patients with symptoms of addiction, psychiatric episodes, and suicidal ideation. Through 24/7 telepsychiatry services, Board-certified psychiatrists evaluate patients through video conferencing to determine the appropriate level of care for each individual.