About Mental Health
Role and Function
North Metropolitan Area Health Service (NMAHS) Mental Health aims to provide best practice, specialised mental health services supported by strategic planning in partnerships with service providers and consumer and carer stakeholders.
NMAHS Mental Health is part of North Metropolitan Area Health Service which includes the Graylands, Sir Charles Gairdner, Osborne Park, Swan District and Kalamunda Hospitals and associated health services, Joondalup Health Campus and NMAHS Population and Ambulatory Care Division.
The largest mental health service in Western Australia, NMAHS Mental Health employs approximately 1700 staff, across four major programs: Infant Child Adolescent and Youth Mental Health Service (for children up to 17 years and youth 18 to 25 years), Adult Mental Health Service (18 to 65 years), Older Adult Mental Health Service (over 65 years) and Statewide/Tertiary Services.
The age-related programs deliver services through inpatient units, community mental health clinics, day therapy and outreach programs to a catchment area population of more than 800,000, from Mosman Park in the south to Two Rocks in the north and Kalamunda in the east. Statewide/Tertiary Services encompass research disciplines and forensic, neurological, art therapy and other specialised services, many of them based on Graylands Hospital campus. NMAHS Mental Health services are accessed by referral from a range of health care providers.
As well as overseeing established clinical services NMAHS Mental Health also develops new services as part of its operational brief in line with the WA MH Strategy 2004-2007. These include: ongoing development of community residential programs and transition support services; establishment of Emergency Department psychiatric consultation-liaison-treatment nurse positions; development of services for special needs groups within the community, including indigenous, perinatal and eating disorders services; formation of community-based crisis response teams and the Mental Health Emergency Response Line; shared care GP liaison services; and participation in inter-agency initiatives to improve wellbeing and outcomes of children and families.
Governance
The NMAHS Mental Health Executive Group, led by the Area Executive Director [PDF / 21KB], has responsibility for the operations of NMAHS Mental Health.
NMAHS Vision Statement
Vision:
Make a good system great!
Purpose:
Our staff aim to improve health outcomes by health promotion, education and safe, evidence based practice.
Values:
- Respect for patients and their families
- Respect for staff
- Respect for diversity
- Respect for innovation & change
- Respect for ethics, honesty and integrity
- Respect for community & clinical partners
- Respect for scholarship & the academic basis of health care
For Further Information
North Metropolitan Area Health Service Mental Health
Executive Office
PO Box Private Bag No1
Claremont, Western Australia 6010
Phone: (08) 9347 6644
Fax: (08) 9347 6949
Email: NMAHS, Mental Health Exec Secretary
NMAHS Mental Health Sites
To view the mental health sites, please click here.
Hospital Campus Maps
To view the hospital campus map of NMAHS Mental Health, please click here.
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