Macon Behavioral Health System
3500 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA 31210
Phone: 478-477-3829

Macon Behavioral Health System provides a full array of mental health, substance abuse and behavioral health care program services to both children and adolescents from ages 5-21. The center takes a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to the development of behavioral health care programs offering a continuum to include inpatient acute hospitalization, residential services, secure group home and CORE outpatient services. Macon Behavioral also offers free assessment and referral services. Counseling staff are available 24 hours a day, seven day a week.

Services/Programs

• Acute inpatient services in a 16-bed unit for patients ages 5-17 by a specialized staff with a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing psychiatric, behavioral and substance abuse issues in a safe, nurturing, therapeutic and child-friendly environment equipped for voluntary, involuntary and emergency admittance
• Highly specialized adolescent residential programs providing 24-hour care for a broad spectrum of issues such as psychiatric, behavioral and developmental delay by utilizing a unique therapies approach and behavior management component to assist adolescents in regulating their behaviors, managing anger and mood, and improving overall social functioning
• Residential services include secured specialized units, an accredited school on campus, medication management, nursing care, dietary consults, psycho-educational groups, vocational training, and recreational, individual, group and family therapy
• Full continuum of care for discharge planning, including partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program, outpatient therapy and residential treatment programs
• Services provided by child and adolescent certified psychiatrists, licensed therapists, registered nurses, social work staff, dieticians, recreational therapists, psychologists, certified teachers and physicians

Accreditation

• The Joint Commission

Continuum of Care

• PSI's Continuum of Care

• Acute Inpatient
• Assessment and Referral
• Outpatient Services
• Residential Treatment Centers (RTC)
• Therapeutic Group Homes

Specialty Programs

• In addition to providing high-quality behavioral health services to the general public which span a continuum of care from outpatient to acute and residential care, many PSI facilities offer Specialty Programs that provide solution-focused services to individuals and groups who present with unique circumstances or treatment needs which cannot otherwise be successfully addressed in community health settings.

Areas of Expertise

• PSI provides an array of services and treatment options for adults, adolescents and children who may experience a wide spectrum of behavioral health and addictive disease concerns. Click here for more information.