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Emergency Services/Crisis Support and Adult Crisis
Stabilization Unit (CSU)
Program Description
The Harbor�s Emergency
Services/Crisis Support program provides 24-hour crisis intervention counseling, assessment and referral services,
and admissions to our crisis stabilization units to any and
all individuals regardless of age, race, sex, or
ability to pay.
The Harbor�s Emergency Services/Crisis Support program is divided
into three areas:
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Crisis Support
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Admissions
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Pasco
County Coordination Center.
The Crisis Support area focuses
on persons competent and voluntarily seeking crisis support. The Admissions
component provides assessments and processes admissions of individuals who
are in need of admission on either on a voluntary
or involuntary basis due to a psychiatric crisis. The Pasco
County Coordination Center acts as a resource to local area medical facilities
in the referral of individuals to the most appropriate receiving
facility under the Baker Act Transportation Exception Plan
for Pasco County.
The Harbor�s adult CSU provides treatment to persons who have
co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. The Crisis
Stabilization program provides a safe, therapeutic environment for medically
stable adults who require 24 hour nursing care and supervision due to a mental
health crisis. Admissions to this unit may be on a voluntary or involuntary
basis based on Baker Act (FS Ch. 394) criteria. While on the unit the primary
goal is to stabilize the crisis through psychiatric interventions by a
psychiatrist and/or ARNP (advanced registered nurse practitioner).
Additionally, nurses and trained behavioral health technicians
provide close observation and structured unit activities including
psycho-educational groups, and skills trainings. Active discharge planning,
which begins at admission, is offered seven days per week, so that as soon as
the psychiatric crisis is stabilized the individual can return to their home in
the community. If the individual does not have a home, or cannot return to
the residence from which they came, focused efforts are made to find a suitable
residence of their choice.
The Harbor�s CSU not only works closely with our Detoxification
and Residential Substance Abuse Programs, but also has a formal agreement with
Operation PAR to provide the continuation of methadone to persons on active
methadone maintenance and in need of crisis stabilization.
Hours:
24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Service Areas:
Pasco, Hernando and Pinellas counties
Locations:
Pasco County: New Port Richey
The Harbor -
Multipurpose Campus
8002 King Helie Blvd.
New Port Richey, Florida
34653
(727) 834-3965
Hernando County: Brooksville
The Harbor -
Hernando Campus
7074 Grove Road
Brooksville, Florida 34609
(352)
540-9335
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