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Western Missouri Mental Health Center1000 East 24th St. |
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Western Missouri Mental Health Center, an agency for the Department of Mental Health, is located on Hospital Hill in the heart of Kansas City to provide comprehensive psychiatric care to patients from Kansas City and the seven surrounding counties. WMMHC serves as the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Department of Psychiatry, fulfilling academic and research needs. In January 2004 WMMHC moved into a new 220,000 square foot, 5-story facility. WMMHC offers services in alcoholism, drug, family, group and individual counseling, crisis intervention, group psychiatric therapy, and suicide prevention as well as hospital inpatient care, mental health aftercare and psychiatric care. The hospital also offers an inpatient program to provide treatment for mentally ill patients who have co-occurring substance abuse problems. Faculty in the department of psychiatry also provide clinical services at Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health, which offers outpatient services. WMMHC opened in 1954 as the first racially integrated psychiatric hospital in Kansas City to serve patients of the city hospital system. Today, a full-time faculty provides clinical service at the 115-bed center with more than 200 patient admissions a month and more than 7,000 emergency room visits annually, specializing in active treatment for the most acute and the seriously ill. The hospital contains five inpatient units, including four adult units and a child and adolescent unit. WMMHC also operates a number of group homes in the community. By maintaining a close relationship with a wide array of community agencies, in particular the Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Network, a variety of outpatient services are available at WMMHC and throughout Hospital Hill such as forensic pre-trial assessment, psychological testing, psychotherapy, and medication management. Through Emergency Services, emphasis is placed first on 24-hour observation, diagnosis and treatment before triage to the community mental health system or admittance to the hospital. In addition to residency training, the center also provides training in forensic psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and community psychiatry. An agency for the Department of Mental Health, WMMHC serves as the primary site for the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Department of Psychiatry, fulfilling academic and research needs. Western Missouri Mental Health Center (WMMHC) provides acute psychiatric inpatient services to children and adults from the surrounding seven counties. The center has been recognized for its innovative, comprehensive services and, most recently, received Accreditation with Commendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations. This is the highest level of accreditation awarded by the Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest accrediting body.
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