Mental Health Care in Waukegan, IL

Lake Behavioral Hospital

What Does Lake Behavioral Hospital Offer?

Lake Behavioral Hospital is a mental health facility at 2615 Washington Street, Waukegan, Illinois, offering outpatient care, partial hospitalization and hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale and payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

2615 Washington Street
Waukegan, IL 60085

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 Lake Behavioral Hospital

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

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
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thiothixene
  • Aripiprazole
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other 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 Illinois lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Lake Behavioral Hospital

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

Josselyn Center, Waukegan

204 North Genesee Street, Suite 200, Waukegan, IL 60085 · 1.8 mi

847-441-5600

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee

KAM Alliance Inc, Gurnee

135 North Greenleaf Street, Suite 228, Gurnee, IL 60031 · 1.8 mi

224-944-0827

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee
  • Payment help

Sources

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

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