ST. VINCENT'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE

St. Vincent’s Mental Health is an area mental health service that provides comprehensive services to adults aged between 18 and 64 years who reside in the City of Yarra (except North Carlton), East Melbourne and the city of Boroondara.

Services provided by St. Vincent's Mental Health include:

·          Crisis Assessment and Treatment Service (CAT)

·          Two Community Mental Health Services – Hawthorn and Clarendon – providing continuing care, mobile support and homeless teams

·          Acute Inpatient Service

·          Community Care Unit (CCU - Footbridge)

·          Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry Service (to the general wards at SVH)

·          Primary Mental Health Service – provides support to GPs, see further information below

·          Nexus Dual Diagnosis Service

·          State-wide Specialist Services: the Koori Mental Health Inpatient Service, (accessed through the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service); the Victorian Dual Disability Service and the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit. 

65 years and older

Aged Person's Mental Health Service

St. George's Hospital

Under16 years

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service - Austin Hospital

Referrals and Enquiries, call Psychiatric Triage:

1300 55 88 62

All new referrals for anyone of any age, including urgent referral and out of hours enquiries.

Yarra-Boroondara Primary Mental Health Service

The Yarra-Boroondara Primary Mental Health Service provides support and information to GPs and other health care providers who work in the cities of Yarra and Boroondara, regarding their work with any patients with mental health problems.  It is the GP’s not the patient’s address that is used to define someone as being within the catchment.

Joint consultations for GPs with their patients are offered for patients who are presenting with depression or anxiety, or young people presenting with early signs of serious mental illness.  The team also provide education and training to local primary health care providers.  The service is based at local Community Health Services, and see people at the site of their primary care provider (eg GP surgery).