CLINICAL SERVICE
The regular faculty members in the department of psychiatry provide clinical service at two institutions. Center for Behavioral Medicine offers inpatient services. Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health offers outpatient, inpatient and emergency services.
Center for Behavioral Medicine (CBM) is a 50 bed inpatient psychiatric hospital located on Hospital Hill (24th and Campbell) operated and funded by the Missouri Department of Mental Health. CBM serves all persons seeking or referred for clinical services, regardless of their ability to pay for those services. The hospital contains two adult inpatient units of twenty-five beds each. CBM also operates a number of group homes in the community and provides outpatient forensic and addiction services.
Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health offers outpatient, inpatient and emergency services. Truman Behavioral Health Network (TBHN) is owned and operated by Truman Medical Center, a public institution which receives partial funding from Kansas City, Missouri and Jackson County in its role as a public institution. It is an outpatient community mental health center on Hospital Hill (22nd and Charlotte). It also serves all persons seeking or referred for clinical services, regardless of their ability to pay for those services. TBHN averages 15,000 outpatient visits per year. Services include psychiatric assessment, psychotherapy, medication management, group therapy, family therapy and addiction services. TBHN also provides the consultation liaison psychiatry services to Truman Medical Center’s medical, surgical, and emergency services seeing 1,000 patients per year and operates clinics in the city and county correctional centers. Truman Behavioral Health Network also operates 50 acute care psychiatric inpatient beds and the city’s only dedicated Psychiatric Emergency Room in the same facility as the Center for Behavioral Medicine.