Offering both voluntary and involuntary admissions for acute mental health concerns.
Experiencing an urgent mental or behavioral health crisis can be a frightening and confusing time in someone’s life. The Behavioral Health Resource Center at UF Health Flagler Hospital is a supportive, compassionate place for youth and adults.
BRAVE is a program that encourages area youth to get in touch with their mental health early on, be open to receiving help and supports access to behavioral health services via care navigation and technology. As part of UF Health St. Johns Care Connect, the program works with the whole family to address social determinants of health to ensure delivery of the right care, at the right time, in the right place.
If you or someone you love is struggling with mental health, then UF Health St. Johns Behavioral Health Services offers the warm, healing refuge you need. Set in historic St. Augustine at national acclaimed UF Health Flagler Hospital, our private, non-profit adult programs offer exceptional treatment. Here, a team of clinical experts assess and treats patients in surroundings of unsurpassed excellence.
There is hope. Psychiatric, behavioral and life- or stress-related problems warrant great care and concern - both of which you will find at UF Health Flagler Hospital Behavioral Health Services. Our intensive and compassionate treatment program has helped thousands of adults whose emotional or behavioral problems interfere with daily work, family or social activities. Our experts have the experience to treat a broad spectrum of difficulties, including:
Mental and behavioral health treatment must be as unique as the patient it helps. Fortunately, our Behavioral Health Services team has the experience necessary to create a custom course of treatment, and board-certified physicians from multiple specialties are readily available for consultation on any medical issue. The array of options include:
The partial hospitalization behavioral health program at UF Health Flagler Hospital provides an intensive level of psychiatric treatment in an outpatient setting. Our primary goal is to improve quality of life and reduce symptoms to prevent relapse or hospitalization. All new patients participate in a formal clinical evaluation performed by a multidisciplinary team. This evaluation helps the team develop a treatment plan that reflects each patient's individual strengths, limitations and goals for treatment. Every patient's goals are reviewed and updated weekly in team meetings and individual sessions.
Our compassionate and comprehensive program is designed to achieve the best possible results and consists of:
Patients come to the program voluntarily as a transition from the hospital, their home or by physician referral. To participate in the program, patients must:
For referrals and assessments, please contact us at (904) 819-4040 (phone) or (904) 819-4041 (fax)
The treatment team represents a broad range of professionals committed to the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of our patients. Their expertise shapes lives so that everything from therapy to recreation moves patients toward a healthier way of life. Our staff consists of:
