Adult psychiatric treatment at Bayview occurs in a variety of settings from emergency care to inpatient units, outpatient clinics, and community programs to support recovery. Building on a long tradition of serving the comprehensive needs of the community, Bayview Psychiatry also has a number of specialty areas including chronic mental illness, substance use disorders, geriatric psychiatry, neuropsychiatry (dementia, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury), sleep disorders, and behavioral medicine — the interface between psychiatry and other areas of medicine (e.g., burns, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain). 

Appointments are made through each of the individual clinics. Click on the links below for more information about each or call:

General Information and Referrals: 410-550-0104

Inpatient

• General Inpatient Psychiatry Unit

Outpatient

• Adult Autism and Developmental Disabilities Center
• Anxiety Disorders Clinic
• Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic
• Brain Injury Clinic
• Clozapine Clinic
• Creative Alternatives
• Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic
• EPIC-RAISE (Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic-Recovery After Initial Schizophrenia Episode)
• General Outpatient Clinic
• Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic
• Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for Adults
• Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
• Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center
• Mobile Treatment
• Mood Disorders Clinic
• Obesity Behavioral Medicine Clinic
• Perinatal Mood Disorders Clinic
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation
• Schizophrenia Clinic
• Targeted Case Management

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Creative Alternatives

Assisting adults who have psychiatric disabilities to reach their full potential

Creative Alternatives at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is an innovative program that serves adults who have serious and persistent mental illnesses and who have not benefited from traditional services. The program combines mental health treatment, rehabilitative services and assistance with daily living. Program participants (called members) have the opportunity for community integration and personal growth.

Creative Alternatives works with members in hospitals, shelters, and in the community. On entering the program, members receive services from a team of professionals that includes a psychiatrist, nurse, case managers and community support assistants. A team member is available 24 hours a day in the event of a crisis or just to offer reassurance. Specialists in employment, housing, substance abuse, peer support and entitlements also support the members.

Creative Alternatives helps members with their medical and mental health needs in addition to assisting them in achieving their goals. These goals may involve:

• Housing
• Employment
• Transportation
• Education
• Substance abuse treatment
• Legal assistance
• Financial management
• Wellness and recovery

Creative Alternatives is funded entirely by grants from Maryland's Behavioral Health Administration and Behavioral Health System Baltimore. Members do not have to pay to be a part of the program, nor do they have to forego their government benefits.

Program Manager: Wendy Shepard, PMHCNS-BC

Behavioral Health System Baltimore screens all program referrals. For information on eligibility criteria and a referral form, please review the referral form or call 410-631-6021.