Mental Health Care in Gainesville, FL

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc: Alachua County Acute Care

What Does Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc: Alachua County Acute Care Offer?

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc: Alachua County Acute Care is a mental health facility at 1541 SW Williston Road, Gainesville, Florida, offering telehealth therapy and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

1541 SW Williston Road
Gainesville, FL 32608

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 Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc: Alachua County Acute Care

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Community Mental Health Block Grants
  • Community Service Block Grants
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • U.S. Department of VA funds
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
  • Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site 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

  • Veterans
  • Active duty military
  • Members of military families
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • 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
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services

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 Florida lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc: Alachua County Acute Care

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

Sources

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

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