Mental Health Care in Pittsburgh, PA
Jefferson Hospital
What Does Jefferson Hospital Offer?
Jefferson Hospital is a mental health facility at P.O. Box 18119, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT and DBT. It offers walk-in psychiatric emergency services.
P.O. Box 18119
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
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.
Types of Care at Jefferson Hospital
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Private health insurance
- 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
- Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
Therapy and Treatment Approaches
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
Who the Program Serves
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Ages: Young Adults
- Ages: Adults
- Ages: Seniors
Medications Used
- Chlorpromazine
- Droperidol
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- Perphenazine
- Pimozide
- Prochlorperazine
- Thiothixene
- Thioridazine
- Aripiprazole
- 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
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Suicide prevention services
- Education 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 Pennsylvania lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.