Corporate Services Mental Health & ATODS Community, Oral & Allied Health Services
Mental Health & ATODS
The Gold Coast Health Service District provides all public mental health and ATODS (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs) services on the Gold Coast. The Mental Health Service provides assessment, treatment and support to people who have a mental illness. Services are provided depending on individual need and ranges from inpatient treatment to support in the community.
Acute Care
- Acute Inpatient Beds - two wards at the Southport Campus and 10 acute young adult beds at the Robina Campus.
- Emergency Psychiatry Service (EPS) based in the Emergency Department (ED) at Southport Campus
- The Acute Care Treatment Team (ACTT) based at Southport.
- A Rehabilitation Service based at the Southport Campus.
- A Consultation Liaison Service based at Southport and servicing both Southport and Robina Campuses.
Continuing Care
- Robina Campus - includes aged care mental health beds, extended treatment beds and extended rehabilitation beds.
- Community mental health clinics located at Southport and Palm Beach.
- A community elderly service for the mentally ill.
Child and Youth
- Inpatient beds at the Robina Campus.
- Outpatient clinics located at Southport and Burleigh
- Infant Mental Health - a limited community based service for acute needs
- Consultation Liaison Service based at Southport Campus.
- School Mental Health Programs - provides a service to local schools
- Child Safety Unit
Elderly
- Aged care mental health beds at the Robina Campus
- A community elderly service for the mentally ill
ATODS
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs is a service which develops and provides innovative solutions to reduce the harmful impact of drug use. Services are based around two clinics on the Gold Coast, Northside clinic located at the Southport Campus and Southside Clinic based at Miami.
Northside Clinic
- Hospital Alcohol and Drug Service (HADS)
- Consultation, liaison, prevention and intervention
- Community based programs including counselling, relapse prevention (NSP), Needle and Syringe, Drug Court, Therapeutic Advisory Service (TODAS) and health promotion
Southside Clinic
- Opioid Treatment Clinic
- Opioid Replacement Therapy utilising Buprenorphine and Methadone
- Ambulatory Opioid Detoxification
- Relapse Prevention utilising Naltrexone
- Liver Clinic
- Blood Born Virus Screening/Counselling