Overview
The department owns several inpatient facilities that provide psychiatric, rehabilitative and nursing care services to its clients.
In addition, the department contracts with a private provider, Appalachian Regional Healthcare in Hazard, to provide up to 100 inpatient psychiatric beds for citizens of 21 eastern Kentucky counties as outlined in 908 KAR 2:040.
For information on a specific facility, see the list below.
Psychiatric Hospitals
These programs provide acute, inpatient psychiatric care for adults who are mentally ill. Many patients are referred through the CMHCs when it has been determined that community services/facilities are not appropriate.
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
These programs are designed to provide comprehensive and individualized health care, training and habilitation services to individuals to promote their functional skills and independence.
Nursing Facilities or Intermediate Care Facilities (ICFs)
These programs provide long-term medical care for mentally ill persons who also require treatment or supervision of the mental illness. Criteria for admission is inpatient status in other state-operated facilities.
Intermediate Care Facility Specialty Clinics
The specialty clinics provide evidence-based, holistic health care for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities living in the facility or community.
Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center (KCPC) is a licensed psychiatric hospital that conducts forensic competency evaluations, competency restoration, and criminal responsibility evaluations for pre-trial patients. The facility also provides inpatient treatment for individuals who have been adjudicated incompetent to stand trial and are held on a civil commitment order. All patients at KCPC are court-ordered under KRS 504.080, KRS 504.110, or KRS 202C. KCPC serves all 120 counties and is located in a secure facility on the grounds of Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in Lagrange, Kentucky.