A new wing at Texas Health Arlington will take adolescents, adults, and the elderly battling mental health problems like substance abuse, stress, anxiety and severe depression.
About one in four adults has a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. In North Texas, more than 258,000 residents 18 and older experience a serious episode of depression each year.
Ramona Osburn, senior vice president of behavioral health for Texas Health Resources, says the new 35-bed facility in Arlington will take a comprehensive approach to mental health care.
“One of the things we’re looking at,” she says, “is integrating physical medicine with behavioral medicine. And to do that you really need to have a behavioral health facility that’s close to a medical facility because more often than not you have so many behavioral health patients that come in with co-morbid medical disorders that you need to treat the whole patient.”
The behavioral health facility at Texas Health Arlington will accept individuals with a behavioral health diagnosis for any of the center’s inpatient and outpatient programs.
To schedule a free behavioral health assessment at Texas Health Behavioral Health Center Arlington, please call the 24-hour Texas health Behavioral Health Help Line at 682-236-6023. Visit TexasHealth.org/behavioral-health to learn more about the program.