Inpatient Services
Central Intake at UWMC
206-598-6195
Our Patient Care Coordinator accepts and evaluates requests for inpatient psychiatric admissions as well as inpatient and outpatient electro-convulsive therapy (ECT).

Central Intake’s hours are 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission requests that occur outside of those hours are evaluated in the UWMC Emergency Room 206-598-4000 by our social work staff and on-call psychiatry faculty.

Inpatient Services at UW Medical Center on Pacific Street

  • Facilitation of admission for seriously ill older adults
  • Assessment and treatment of older patients experiencing depression, psychosis, behavioral disturbance, drug toxicity, confusion, delirium, and unstable medical-psychiatric problems
  • Full range of therapeutic modalities including ECT
To refer a patient for admission to the inpatient service, call UW Psychiatric Services Central Intake at 206-598-6195 any time, day or night.


Eating Disorder Program The Eating Disorders Program is located on the main Seattle campus of the Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center. The more intensive inpatient and day treatment programs are situated on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit (IPU) and ongoing services are provided in the outpatient setting. The ED Program allows us to maximize use of the inpatient unit: expanding services to a broader diagnostic range and balancing inpatient acuity to maintain full capacity.
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Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Psychiatric consultations for SCCA inpatients are provided by the University of Washington Medical Center Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service
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