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Anyone may contact St Vincent's Mental Health Service if they are worried about changes in the mood, ideas or behaviour of someone living in cities of Yarra and Boroondara.
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St Vincent's Mental Health (or Inner East Mental Health Service Area) provides psychiatric services to people who are aged 16 to 65 and living in the cities of Yarra and Boroondara.
We provide:
- a 44-bed acute psychiatric inpatient service
- 2 community mental health services (Clarendon clinic in the City of Yarra and Hawthorn Clinic in the City of Boroondara) with approximately 350 registered consumers in each clinic
- a 20-bed Community Care Unit and extended residential rehabilitation service
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| Ms Bridget Organ |
Manager Mental Health |
Tel: (03) 9288 4396 |
| Dr Peter Bosanac |
Director of Clinical Services |
Tel: (03) 9288 4329 |
| Prof David Castle |
Professor of Psychiatry |
Tel: (03) 9288 4751 |
| Ms Anna Love |
Director of Nursing |
Tel: (03) 9288 2009 |
| Ms Rosemary Pace |
Manager Aged Psychiatry Service |
Tel: (03) 9816 8454 |
| Prof Nicola Lautenschlager |
Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age |
Tel: (03) 9816 0485 |
Our programs include:
Psychiatric triage provides advice and screening assessment for all new referrals to the service on a 24 hour, 7 days a week basis.
Tel: 1300 558 862
Continuing Care, Clinical and Consultancy Service (CCT)
CCT provides ongoing specialist care and support with the focus on meeting identified needs of clients through a range of clinical and therapeutic interventions.
Tel: (03) 9417 5696 (Yarra area)
Tel: (03) 9882 9299 (Boroondara area)
CATS offers psychiatric assessment and intensive community-based treatment to people in the acute phase of psychiatric illness.
Tel: 1300 558 862
MSTS provides intensive ongoing support, rehabilitation and treatment to people in their own surroundings.
Tel: (03) 9417 5696 (Yarra area)
Tel: (03) 9882 9299 (Boroondara area)
(CCU)
Tel: (03) 9481 5644 (Footbridge, Fitzroy)
Our Primary Mental Health Service provides support and education to GPs and other primary healthcare agencies that are providing services to people of any age with mental health problems. Assessment, recommendations for treatment and some limited interventions are provided.
Tel: (03) 9882 9299 (Boroondara area)
Shared care arrangements are collaborative partnerships of community mental health staff with private psychiatrists and GPs providing coordinated care.
Direct Line is located at Turning Point and offers a 24 hour, 7 days a week service to patients and clinicians. Direct Line has an extensive database of providers for Drug and Alcohol Services.
Tel: 1800 888 236
For administrative enquiries call Turning Point
Tel: (03) 9418 1011
24 Hr Phone service for Health Professionals
Tel: 1800 812 804 Anywhere in Victoria (Toll Free)
This service provides acute assessment and case management for people with a mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service – Austin Hospital is for patients aged 16 years and under.
For patients aged 65 years and older St Vincent's offers an Aged Psychiatry Service, located at the St George's campus in Kew.
Tel: (03) 9816 0443
Accessed through the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
GP Psych Support – your patient, your call
The GP Psych Support service provides general practitioners with free patient management advice from our team of psychiatrists. The service operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
The service provides specialist advice in drug and alcohol psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and general psychiatry.
You can access GP Psych Support at www.psychsupport.com.au, by calling 1800 200 588 or by sending a completed faxback form to 1800 012 422.
The Austin and St Vincent’s Mental Health Services are launching a service for severe body image and eating disorders. The Body Image and Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery Service (BETRS) will operate from 104 Studley Park Road Kew and will begin taking referrals from 13 September 2010.
BETRS is particularly aimed at people with anorexia nervosa, but also bulimia nervosa, binge eating and body dysmorphic disorder who have not being able to access the private system because of cost or who need of a second opinion or more intensive treatment.
BETRS will always provide an initial assessment and treatment planning period for the patient and their family. The GP will then receive a diagnostic assessment, including severity of the illness, clear statement of risks and prognosis and identification of what may be the most appropriate treatment program.
BETRS will have the capacity to move patients into the relevant level of care within the BETR service – outpatient, day program or in-patient or link to appropriate community services.
Who to refer:
Available to patients over the age of 16 years living in the local governments areas of Darebin, Boroondara, Nillumbik, Banyule, Whittlesea and Yarra.
Tel: (03) 9854 1700 and ask to speak to the BETRS referral service.