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Overview

The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center (UTHCPC) provides short-term inpatient mental healthcare services for children, adolescents and adults. Our affiliation as an operating unit of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston affords us the opportunity to provide quality patient care, education of clinical professionals, as well as research into the causes and treatments of mental illness.

UTHCPC is housed in a three-story building located at 2800 South MacGregor Way, Houston, Texas 77021, in the Texas Medical Center.

The hospital serves persons suffering from depression, major depression or bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other severe behavioral or mental health disorders.

Patients admit to the hospital through various routes. Voluntarily-admitted patients are referred by their health insurance provider, private physician or other hospitals. They can also be referred by the Mental Health Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County. Involuntarily-admitted patients are committed through the probate court system, after being referred for treatment by family members, healthcare providers or others.