Encouraging, equipping and empowering patients and families to achieve whole person health.
Not all diseases are physical. Mental and emotional issues can severely affect all aspects of life and can be just as debilitating as a physical disease. ECU Health has behavioral health clinicians across eastern North Carolina to help tackle issues like depression, anxiety, bi-polar, and schizophrenia as well as other mental illnesses.
We recognize that every person’s circumstances are unique. That’s why we don’t work from a standard treatment plan. After carefully examining each patient’s needs, we develop a highly personalized treatment plan to get patients back to a healthy and productive life.
Under the guidance of physicians, nurses and therapists, we help manage medications, provide counseling, psychological testing, and referrals to other services that can be of benefit.
Why ECU Health Behavioral Health?
To make a referral for inpatient care at ECU Health Medical Center Behavioral Health units in Greenville, please call 252-847-8791. To refer to our Behavioral Health units at ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, please call 252-642-5755 or 252-538-8440.
We offer Electroconvulsive Therapy, also known as ECT, which is a safe, non-invasive specialized treatment that is highly effective in patients with severe depression, suicidal ideations and severe psychosis (available in Greenville for inpatients and outpatients).
- In Greenville, ECU Health Medical Center has a specialized unit for patients with both mental illnesses and an intellectual disabilities. We are the only hospital in North Carolina with a unit dedicated to the care of these patients. ECU Health Medical Center also has one of the nation’s only Psychiatric-Medicine units in addition to its unit for adults in need of psychiatric inpatient care. ECU Health Medical Center also has a unit for adults experiencing a behavioral health emergency.
- In Ahoskie, ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan offers a special unit for seniors with acute psychiatric illness. We also have a specialty hospital for adults, ages 18-64, in need of psychiatric hospitalization.
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