Mental Health Care in Philadelphia, PA

Behavorial Center at Girard

What Does Behavorial Center at Girard Offer?

Behavorial Center At Girard is a mental health facility at 801 West Girard Avenue, GMC Building, 3 North, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

801 West Girard Avenue, GMC Building, 3 North
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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 Behavorial Center at Girard

  • 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
  • Other State funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Crisis and Emergency Services

  • Crisis intervention team
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite 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
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Members of military families
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
  • Persons with eating disorders
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thiothixene
  • Thioridazine
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • 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
  • Housing services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Illness management and recovery
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • 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 Pennsylvania lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Behavorial Center at Girard

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

Sources

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

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