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Mental health services

To access these services, call Assessment and Referral at 763-236-7911.

Full hospitalization for adults

Mercy Hospital's Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit serves as an intensive inpatient psychiatric setting for adults (ages 18 and older).

All patients have a primary mental health diagnosis and are experiencing an acute exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms that interferes with their ability to carry out activities of daily living. The unit accepts admissions facilitated by Assessment and Referral, direct admissions, medically stabilized transfers from the hospital's medical units and outpatients.

Patients receive around-the-clock care in a hospital setting while learning how to manage their illnesses. The attending psychiatrist directs the care team, which may include psychologists, registered nurses, behavioral health associates, program specialists, and program therapists.

Integrated patient care is accomplished through collaboration with other hospital services, such as pharmacy, nutritional services, laboratory, pastoral care and rehabilitation services.

To contact the Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit, located on the fifth floor in the east tower of the hospital (5 East), call 763-236-8500.

Adult outpatient program

Mercy Hospital's Adult Mental Health Outpatient Program (AMHOP) consists of comprehensive mental health day treatment services offering adults, 18 years of age and older, professional assistance in learning how to cope with the significant problems they are experiencing in daily living. The program's flexible scheduling -- three hours a day, one to five days per week -- allows for gradual transitions back into the community.

Program staff include a psychiatric medical director, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurses and adjunctive therapists. They work together to:

• assist patients in making the transition back into the community once inpatient treatment has been completed
• provide therapy, structure and support for patients who do not require an intensive treatment program
• prevent hospitalizations by providing stabilizatioon of symptoms and medication monitoring
• assist patients in identifying and gaining an awareness of his or her feelings, needs and goals
• teach new ways of dealing with self-defeating or non-functional behaviors and thought processes

Persons are referred to the Adult Mental Health Outpatient Program (AMHOP) by psychiatrists, family practitioners, therapists, county agencies, clergy, other hospitals, family members or by the individual. AMHOP services offer a goal-oriented continuum of therapeutic and group activities tailored for each individual. A multi-disciplinary approach is utilized with the primary focus being to provide assessment, treatment and facilitation of change as is appropriate.

Mercy Hospital
4050 Coon Rapids Blvd.
Coon Rapids, MN 55433
763-236-6000
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