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Western State Hospital
About
Established in 1854, Western State Hospital is an inpatient psychiatric hospital that serves the 34 counties making up the Western Kentucky region.
Treatment Services
Mental Health Treatment
Accreditation and Licensure
Joint Commission
Information
Accepting Patients
Not Accepting Patients
Treatment Type
- Inpatient
- Residential
- Short Term
Facility Type
- Non-profit
Treatment Services
- Individual Therapy
Accepted Forms Of Payment
- Medicaid
- Aetna
- Anthem
- Humana
- Passport
- WellCare
- United Healthcare Community Plan
- Medicare
- Private Insurance
- Self-Pay
- Payment Plan
- Military Insurance / Tri-Care
Additional Services
- Peer Support / Peer Recovery Program
- Social Services
- Interpreting Services
- Involuntary Treatment (202a Tim's Law)
Population Served
- Age
- Adult
- Gender
- Female
- Male
- Pregnant / Postpartum
- First Responders
- Veterans/Military
- Health Care Professionals
- Teachers
- Preferred Language
- English
- Spanish
- American Sign Language
- Disabled
- Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Blind & Visually Impaired
- Physical Disability
- Intellectual or other Developmental Disability
- Brain Injury
- Other Mental Disability
- Current Substance Use
- Currently Receiving Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)
- Correctional/Legal
Policies
Referral / Admission
- Referral process
- Petition filled out, medical stability confirmed, then a referral from local CMHC to certify that this person meets criteria for involuntary hospitalization
- Admission criteria
- person is a mentally ill person: (1) Who presents a danger or threat of danger to self, family or others as a result of the mental illness; (2) Who can reasonably benefit from treatment; and (3) For whom hospitalization is the least restrictive alternative mode of treatment presently available.
- Referral required
Tobacco Policy
- Smoking
- Not Allowed
- Dipping
- Not Allowed
- E cigarettes
- Not Allowed
- Smoking cessation products
- Allowed
- Smoking Cessation Aids Available at Facility
Other Requirements / Policies
- HIV Screening Offered