Mental Health & Addictions

Acute Inpatient Psychiatry Unit (AIPU)

Provides high-intensity, acute psychiatric services 24 hours a day for individuals in acute psychiatric distress and who are 18 years of age and older experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms and/or at risk of harm to self or others.

Acute Mental Health Services

Community Treatment Orders Program, Nipissing Early Intervention in Psychosis Program & Nipissing Eating Disorders Program.

Addiction Services – Withdrawal Management Program

Withdrawal management services provides help for withdrawal from alcohol and/or other addictive substances.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams 1 and 2

The Assertive Community Treatment Teams provide community based client-centered, recovery-oriented mental health services for persons with serious mental illnesses.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit

The unit offers both unplanned crisis and planned services to children and adolescents under the age of 18 with serious mental health problems living in Nipissing, Parry Sound, South Cochrane, and Muskoka Districts.

Community Crisis Outreach

This program offers Mental Health clinical expertise, assessments, support, advocacy, discharge planning and case management of clients in crisis.

Consultation Liaison Psychiatric Registered Nurse (Inpatient)

This service utilizes expert psychiatric nursing knowledge to assist in the assessment and development of the care/treatment plans of patients with mental health problems in the North Bay Regional Health Centre.

Crisis – 24 hours / 7 days per week (Outpatient)

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, the program is available twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week to provide mental health assessments, support and referrals.

Eating Disorders

Provides individual time limited therapy for youth and time limited group therapy for adults. Offers consultation and education for patients and family members as well as community and hospital programs.

Emergency Department Psychiatric Consultations

This program, supported by the Nipissing Crisis Intervention Program, provides specialized psychiatric assessments and treatment for individuals presenting in crisis at the North Bay Regional Health Centre.

Outpatient Mental Health Clinic

Provides time limited evidence based group psychotherapy using CBT and DBT applied approaches with a specialty in mood and anxiety disorders to enhance recovery and wellness.

Safe Beds

The program is available twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week for individuals (aged 16 and over) with a mental health or addiction.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery Program

Provides regional mental health services to individuals, families, and communities in North eastern Ontario. Both hospital and community based services are available. Patients are encouraged to participate in their care planning to the fullest extent possible.