Mental Health Care in Madison, WI

UnityPoint Health Meriter

What Does UnityPoint Health Meriter Offer?

UnityPoint Health Meriter is a mental health facility at 202 South Park Street, Madison, Wisconsin, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE and self-pay. Therapy approaches include DBT.

202 South Park Street
Madison, WI 53713

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 UnityPoint Health Meriter

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Other State funds
  • Private health insurance
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

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

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • 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

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Droperidol
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Pimozide
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thioridazine
  • Trifluoperazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • IIoperidone
  • 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
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Illness management and recovery
  • Psychosocial rehabilitation services
  • Case management service
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • 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 Wisconsin lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

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

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