For questions and referrals, please call (215) 685-6440

The Acute Services Division provides 24 hour crisis and emergency services to all City of Philadelphia residents, regardless of health care plan. These services include:

• suicide and crisis intervention
• mobile team assessments
• referrals to hospital-based psychiatric emergency services
• approval of involuntary commitments (302) to psychiatric hospitals

• suicidality
• agitation and violence
• responses to hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms that place the client at imminent risk (ie. client acting on a auditory hallucination directing the client to harm self or another)
  

• withdrawal from alcohol, benzodiazepines (ie. Xanax, Valium) and opiods (ie. heroin, codeine)