Psychiatry & Behavioral Health

When life’s challenges become overwhelming, you don’t have to go through them alone. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health’s behavioral health professionals are here to help you deal with stress, addiction, emotions, and other issues with compassionate care.

In the event of a behavioral health emergency, call 988 or visit any hospital Emergency Services department.
   

• King County Crisis Line: 206-461-3222
• Snohomish County Care Crisis Line: 800-584-3578
• National Suicide Prevention: 800-273-8255

• Seattle Crisis Resource Directory
• King County Mental Health Division
• Snohomish County Crisis Services

One in five adults will experience a mental health issue every year, some of those serious enough to require inpatient care. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health offers inpatient behavioral health services at the following locations:

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and MultiCare Health System came together to jointly build and operate an inpatient facility located in Tacoma on the MultiCare Allenmore Hospital campus. Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital provides short-term voluntary and involuntary admissions for adults with a focus on general psychiatric care for individuals ages 18 and older with common psychiatric conditions such as:

• Anxiety
• Acute depression
• Suicidal tendencies
• Self-injury
• Mania
• Psychosis

Our professional clinicians treat behavioral health as well as co-existing secondary medical or chemical dependency conditions. Learn more about Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital.

Our Behavioral Health department uses a collaborative care model for outpatient services. This allows patients who are connected to a primary care provider at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health to receive both physical and behavioral health care at a familiar location. This model includes the primary care team, a behavioral health consultant, and a consulting psychiatrist who collaborate on patient care.

Your primary care provider (PCP) will make a referral to behavioral health if the model is appropriate for you, and is available in your PCP's office. This may include seeing a behavioral health consultant for brief, solution-focused, skills-based therapeutic intervention. It may also involve a one-time consultation with a psychiatrist to help you and your PCP decide whether new medications or medication changes may be appropriate, and what the best course of treatment is. The PCP will remain your primary point of contact and will reach out to the consulting providers with questions moving forward.

Patients experiencing chronic or complex issues may benefit from longer-term therapy or ongoing medication management with a psychiatric specialist. If this is the case, your PCP can submit a request to a referral agency we partner with.

We’re currently accepting internal referrals from Virginia Mason Franciscan Health primary care providers only. Please schedule an appointment with your primary care provider to talk about whether a referral to our Collaborative Care model may be useful for you.