Our 24/7 Crisis Assessment
and Admissions Program
Vanderbilt Behavioral Health offers highly specialized and personalized care for children, teens and adults. We provide a range of outpatient and inpatient services. Vanderbilt Behavioral Health is the only provider of inpatient mental health services for children in Middle Tennessee.
We offer programs to help patients with many challenges: anxiety, depression, emotional distress, a mood or personality disorder, or other mental health issues.
Vanderbilt Behavioral Health is the only provider of inpatient mental health services for children in Middle Tennessee. You can be certain your child will receive the best possible care from our expert inpatient team, which includes board-certified child psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, nutritionists and mental health specialists.
For teens and adults, we offer options for inpatient treatment and partial hospitalization.
We provide a safe place where patients and their families can be comfortable, supported, and treated with compassion and dignity. For those in our inpatient programs, we offer extended visiting hours to ensure family members can visit each day of hospitalization.
We encourage patients families to join in treatment to support their success. We provide aftercare plans for families to continue helping patients after they leave our inpatient programs.
Our Patient and Family Advisory Council, including former patients, family members and community advocates, informs our policies and practices, helping to assure the most patient-and-family centered approach.
If you are coping with an addiction, mood disorder or psychiatric disorder, we offer inpatient and outpatient programs to help you get well.
Our team includes specialists in caring for bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, personality disorders, phobias, schizophrenia and sleep disorders, among other conditions.
The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Assessment Program for Professionals (VCAP) provides a first step toward treatment for professionals whose emotional or behavioral problems are affecting their work and personal lives. Upon referral, our VCAP team evaluates an individual's job-related concerns such as addiction, career burnout, disruptive conduct and stress, providing them with a comprehensive treatment plan.
Our 24/7 Access and Admissions service provides immediate assistance by specially trained mental health professionals and access to a psychiatrist around the clock.
Our new ECT/TMS suite allows us to provide these services for inpatients and outpatients under the same roof. We have expanded our visiting hours for patients in the hospital so that family members can visit each day during hospitalization.
It is our goal to provide a wide range of patient and family-centered programs, in a safe place where patients and their families feel comfortable and supported. Our treatment programs may also include the following services:
Pharmacy