Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit

The Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (SMHRU) provides a safe and structured environment and 24-hour clinical support for people with persistent and disabling symptoms of mental illness.

The service aims to promote an individual’s recovery, maximising their strengths and potential by providing multidisciplinary specialist consultation, assessment, collaborative treatment and discharge planning with evidence-based clinical interventions for persons over the age of 18 years.

Our services

Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit provides:

• extended care mental health inpatient services 24 hours, 7 days a week
• a specialised secure environment
• contemporary, high quality and multidisciplinary rehabilitation services to assist consumers to recover from mental illness and to gain skills needed to live in a less restrictive setting.

How to access this service

Admission to the Secure Rehabilitation Inpatient Unit is limited to those who are open to a mental health service, following case discussion by the referral committee. Your mental health clinician will discuss the referral package with you.

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