Medical Unit
The Medical Unit of the local mental health system includes 1.5 FTE psychiatrists, two psychiatric nurse practitioners and two nurses who provide a range of medical services to residents of Josephine County. These services include psychiatric assessments and evaluations, consultations, referral to community partner staff, consulting via a direct phone line for primary care providers, prescribing psychotropic medications, and medication monitoring and management. In the past year 402 individuals were served by the Medical Unit.