Clinical Sites

University of Illinois Hospital (UIH)

1740 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612
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• The UIH inpatient psychiatry unit is a modern, 35-bed psychiatric facility that includes four inpatient teams: Mood & Anxiety, Psychotic/Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Med/Psych, and Women’s Mental Health. It is located on themedical school campus, across the street from the Neuropsychiatric Institute.
• Residents spend anywhere from four to six months rotating on these teams as well as on the consult-liaison service and as the senior resident overseeing the unit.
• Treatment teams work closely with Better Health Through Housing to provide stability for the chronically homeless by moving individuals into stable, supportive housing, with intensive case management.
• Next door to the Adult Psychiatric Unit is our Child Inpatient Psychiatric Unit titled Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU). CATU is a unique, 10-bed unit serving children in the foster care system. The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) identifies the highest risk youth inthe state of Illinois for placement on CATU.

Jesse Brown VA Hospital (JBVA)

820 S. Damen Ave. Chicago, IL 60612
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• JBVA is the West Side Division of the VA Chicago Healthcare System, and is within walking distance of the UIC College of Medicine campus and UIH.
• The hospital is a 209-bed facility with integrated residency programs in all disciplines, including psychiatry. It offers a comprehensive range of services including outpatient services, emergency treatment, a 40-bed inpatient psychiatry unit, a 40-bed residential facility linked with outpatient addiction treatment services, a consultation/liaison service, day hospital, services for the unhoused, addiction services, ECT service, and esketamine for treatment-resistant depression.
• The day hospital program offers a unique opportunity to work with combat PTSD in group and one-on-one settings.
• The Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM) program provides outreach services including home visits by physicians, nursing, and social work.
• A large outpatient addiction treatment program offers specialized treatment for alcohol use disorder and includes a methadone clinic.
• Outpatient mental health services include clinics for geriatric patients, women’s mental health, chronically mentally ill patients, veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, and affective disorders.

Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR)

1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago IL 60612
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• Established in 1909, IJR houses the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry at UIC, including the UIC Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program.
• IJR offers services including individual therapy with children and adolescents, an active marital and family therapy program, and consultation to various schools and neighborhood community agencies.

The Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI)

912 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL 60612
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• Established in 1941, NPI houses the UIC Psychiatry outpatient clinics, residents' private clinical offices, seminar rooms, spaces for group therapy, and offices for other mental health team members including psychologists, neuropsychology, and nurse practitioners.
• Outpatient programs include clinics specializing in Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Neuropsychiatry/Behavioral Neurology, Women’s Mental Health, Gender Affirming Clinic, Recovery (Addiction Treatment), and Anchor Point Clinic.
• The institute is a joint venture between the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, with neurology offices located in the north tower and psychiatry offices in the south tower.

Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center

• Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center offers an intensive outpatient program (IOP), partial hospitalization program (PHP), and residential program specializing in mood disorders and trauma-related disorders.
• Residents rotate through multiple Pathlight locations on Michigan Avenue and in River North.

SunCloud Health

• SunCloud Health offers IOP and PHP programs that specialize in eating disorders, mood disorders, trauma-related disorders, and substance use disorders, as well as the intersection of these symptoms.
• Residents rotate with the SunCloud outpatient facility in Lincoln Park.

Thresholds

• Thresholds is one of the oldest and largest providers of recovery services for persons with mental illnesses and substance use disorders in Illinois.
• Residents have the opportunity to explore a wide range of services including programs specializing in the care of the deaf, veterans, unhoused, and those in acute crisis.

• Embeds senior residents within UIC's Family Medicine clinics for curbside consultations and case supervision.
• Psychiatry residents may additionally perform direct evaluations for select patients with acute or complicated presentations.
• Residents also have the opportunity to collaborate with Illinois DocAssist, which provides state-wide consultation for child/adolescent and perinatal psychiatry.
• Aims to improve community access at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) to timely and appropriate mental health care.