Mental Health Care in Philadelphia, PA

Hospital of the University of PA

What Does Hospital of the University of PA Offer?

Hospital of the University of PA is a mental health facility at 501 South 54th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.

501 South 54th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143

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 Hospital of the University of PA

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment

Crisis and Emergency Services

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

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thioridazine
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Suicide prevention 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 Hospital of the University of PA

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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