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Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Ascension Saint Thomas Behavioral Health Hospital
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About Ascension Saint Thomas Behavioral Health Hospital
Ascension Saint Thomas Behavioral Health Hospital is a 90-bed facility offering age-appropriate care for adults and seniors struggling with behavioral health and co-occurring addiction concerns. They provide inpatient, virtual and on-site day treatment, and intensive outpatient programs to support clients at various stages of recovery. Their experienced caregivers emphasize collaboration throughout the treatment process so clients feel encouraged to actively participate in their own healing.
Benefit from Connection and Accountability
Ascension combines traditional and experiential therapies to help clients reach their goals. Clients meet with a therapist or social worker multiple times per week for individual sessions. Group therapy explores topics like boundaries, relationships, stress, and communication, offering space to connect and grow. Family sessions, expressive therapies, and mindfulness practices round out care. With regular progress checks and aftercare planning, clients gain tools and support for continued healing beyond treatment.
Heal on a Campus Built for Psychiatric Wellness
Ascension’s state-of-the-art hospital in Nashville’s MetroCenter neighborhood offers convenient access for nearby communities. Geriatric-friendly accommodations, semiprivate inpatient rooms, and separate quiet and active spaces support client healing. For wellness and connection, clients benefit from outdoor areas with a walking track, basketball court, and picnic tables, plus an indoor gymnasium. An off-unit café serving three meals daily adds comfort and normalcy to the recovery experience in a safe, structured setting.
Leave Treatment with a Plan
Aftercare planning at Ascension is a collaborative process involving their care team—physicians, social workers, and nursing staff—as well as the client and, when appropriate, a support person. Tailored discharge plans include referrals to step-down programs or other providers. They also follow up within 72 hours of discharge, helping clients transition smoothly while continuing their healing journey with support and intention.
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Provider's Policy:Please call our admissions team for more information on insurance coverage. A knowledgeable member of our team can answer any financial questions you might have, and they can also reach out directly to your insurance carrier to verify and maximize your benefits. This service is free and puts you under no obligation to choose our programming.
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Start Strong with Streamlined Admission
Ascension offers a smooth admissions process to help clients access care without unnecessary delays. Their 24/7 admissions team gathers essential information efficiently, providing timely assessments and treatment recommendations. By removing barriers, they help clients begin their healing journey with clarity and support from the very first step.
Positively Change Brain Chemistry with ECT
Ascension offers electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for clients with severe or treatment-resistant mental health concerns. Typically delivered in 10–12 sessions, ECT is a safe, closely monitored procedure performed under general anesthesia. The treatment itself lasts about five minutes and can help reduce symptoms by positively affecting brain chemistry. It’s available in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Regain Health in a Senior Inpatient Program
Ascension’s senior inpatient program provides round-the-clock psychiatric care for adults 65 and older. Clients benefit from medical services, emotional support, and traditional and expressive therapies. With daily group sessions, the program helps seniors with a variety of conditions build coping skills, self-esteem, and self-care strategies.
Stabilize in Short-Term Inpatient Care
Ascension’s adult inpatient program offers a supportive, secure setting for clients in crisis to begin healing and regain stability. Delivered across multiple units tailored to client needs, including those with mood or thought disorders, this highest level of behavioral health care helps clients build coping skills, find support, and rediscover a sense of safety and hope.
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Center Overview
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Older Adults
Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Treatment Focus
This center specializes in primary mental health treatment and offers programs for co-occurring substance use. You receive collaborative, individualized treatment for whole-person healing.
Treatment
Specializations
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Older Adults
Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Licensed Primary Mental Health
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Treatment Services
Intensive Inpatient
The highest level of care, medically managed intensive inpatient services provides 24-hour nursing and physician care.
Detox
Detox fully and safely removes toxic substances from the body, allowing the next steps in treatment to begin with a clean slate.
Intensive Outpatient Program
In an IOP, patients live at home or a sober living, but attend treatment typically 9-15 hours a week. Most programs include talk therapy, support groups, and other methods.
Licensed Primary Mental Health
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
Outpatient
During outpatient rehab, patients attend a structured treatment program while continuing to live at home.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Trauma-Specific Therapy
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Experiential Therapy
With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Motivational Interviewing
Based on the idea that motivation to change comes from within, providers use a conversational framework to discover personalized methods for change.
Music Therapy
Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.
Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Conditions We Treat
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Self-Harm
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Treat
Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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