Mental Health Care in Washington, DC

Childrens National Hospital

What Does Childrens National Hospital Offer?

Childrens National Hospital is a mental health facility at 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

111 Michigan Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20010

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Childrens National Hospital

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • IIoperidone
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Legal advocacy
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in District of Columbia lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Childrens National Hospital

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Washington mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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