Encouraging, equipping and empowering patients and families to achieve whole person health.
Not all diseases are physical. Mental and emotional issues can severely affect all aspects of life and can be just as debilitating as a physical disease. ECU Health has behavioral health experts across eastern North Carolina to help tackle issues like depression, anxiety, bi-polar, and schizophrenia as well as other mental illnesses.
We recognize that every person’s circumstances are unique. That’s why we don’t work from a standard treatment plan. After carefully examining your needs, we develop a highly personalized treatment plan to get you back to a healthy and productive life.
Under the guidance of physicians, nurses and therapists, we help manage your medications, provide family support and education, and refer you to other services that can benefit you.
Mental Health is Health
Click a link below to view educational sessions about mental health, including the mind-body connection, emotional freedom and keeping up with mental health in the COVID-19 era.
Tap, tap, who’s there? Exploring Emotional Freedom Techniques
Why ECU Health Behavioral Health?
To make a referral for inpatient care at ECU Health Medical Center Behavioral Health units in Greenville, please call 252-847-8791. To refer to our Behavioral Health units at ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, please call 252-642-5755 or 252-538-8440.
For those who have not responded well to medication or other treatments, Electroconvulsive Therapy, also known as ECT, is a specialized treatment that is highly effective in patients with severe depression, suicidal ideations and severe psychosis (available in Greenville for inpatients and outpatients).
- In Greenville, ECU Health Medical Center has a specialized unit for patients with both mental illnesses and an intellectual disabilities. We are the only hospital in North Carolina with a unit dedicated to the care of these patients. ECU Health Medical Center also has one of the nation’s only Psychiatric-Medicine units in addition to its unit for any age adult needing psychiatric hospitalization. ECU Health Medical Center also has units for adults experiencing a behavioral health emergency.
- In Ahoskie, ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan offers a special unit for seniors with acute psychiatric illness, as well as a specialty hospital for adults, ages 18-64, needing psychiatric hospitalization.
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