Child & Adolescent Inpatient Behavioral Health Services
For those 18 years and younger, our psychiatric program provides a safe, supportive treatment environment designed for children and adolescents in crisis.
Our short-term 11-bed inpatient unit located within Latrobe Hospital offers:
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Medication management
- Laboratory screenings
- Structured therapeutic programming and placement
- Art therapy
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family therapy
- Education instruction and remedial help
- Medical consultation
- Social work services including referral
Need more information?
We also offer 24 hour crisis services for children in need. For more information
about Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Services, call:
724-537-1989
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Ahmed Jahangeer, MD
Psychiatry
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Anthony Frederick Yacona, MD
Psychiatry
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Bindu M. Gutti, MD
Psychiatry
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Gowri Arulanantham, MD
Psychiatry
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Hai Wei Wang, MD
Psychiatry
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Saghir Ahmad, MD
Psychiatry
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Michael S. Blastos, MD
Psychiatry
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Trissa R. Gustovich, CRNP
Psychiatry
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Toni L Steele, CRNP
Psychiatry
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Vicki Lynn Beal, CRNP
Psychiatry
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Rene Smail, CRNP
Psychiatry
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Erin Q. Dieter, CRNP
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