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16515 88 Avenue Edmonton Alberta T5R 0A4
780-342-6500 (Switchboard)
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The inpatient program provides comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment, individualized care and treatment to achieve maximum rehabilitation and optimal function. When patients are ready for the next phase of care, the care team ensures appropriate supports are in place to ensure successful reintegration back to the community.
Patients are admitted on a voluntary basis or involuntarily under the Mental Health Act.
Villa Caritas is not a permanent residence for patients.
Visit the Covenant Health website to learn more about the Acute Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Program.
Patients admitted will have acute psychiatric symptoms and/or moderate to severe behavioral difficulties which significantly compromises their physical and/or mental well-being.
Patients must be medically stable. As such, medical needs must be manageable on an acute psychiatric unit without access to urgent on-site medical support.
Can be admitted as an informal (voluntary) or formal (involuntary) patient. Formal patients must meet the following criteria to be admitted under the Alberta Mental Health Act:
An estimated wait time will be provided at the time of appointment booking.
Provides interpreter services for Covenant Health sites only, to help patients and their families communicate with healthcare providers about their treatment and care. This service can provide access to telephone interpreters for more immediate or emergent needs, video remote interpretation and limited in-person interpreters services for pre-arranged appointments.
Phone Interpreter(s) provide access to over 240 languages, including; Arabic, Chinese, Cree, French, German,Hindi, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, Ojibwe, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
