When you can’t wait, find urgent care services near you.
Now there’s a new kind of urgent care, one that focuses on mental health and substance use.
Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC) Centers and Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs) offer a wide range of specialized services for when it’s not an emergency, but you can’t wait for help. They offer:
- Extended outpatient clinic hours
- Same or next-day evaluations, appointments, psychiatric medication consults, and medication for addiction treatment
- Confidential services
When you need help, get expert care near you.
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About CBHCs
Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs) are one-stop shops for a wide range of mental health and substance use services and treatment. The statewide network of CBHCs includes centers across Massachusetts that offer immediate, confidential care for mental health and substance use needs.
Care is offered both in-person and virtually. Services include: immediate mental health and substance use evaluation, individual and group therapy, psychiatric medication consultations, peer support services, medication for addiction treatment, referrals to treatment, and more.
Visit a CBHC
All Community Behavioral Health Centers are open daily for walk-ins, routine appointments, and crisis care.
All crisis services offered by CBHCs are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (including holidays). CBHCs’ routine outpatient services are available from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on weekends.
About BHUCs
Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC) centers offer a range of services that include mental health assessments, substance use treatment, referrals, and much more.
BHUCs are designed to provide people with easier access to care they can get right in their community. At one of the many sites across the state, you can get:
- A same or next-day evaluation.
- Psychopharmacology appointments and addiction medication evaluation within 72 hours of an initial evaluation.
- All other treatment appointments, including follow-up appointments, within 14 calendar days.
Behavioral Health Urgent Care sites also offer extended hours on weekdays, as well as weekend hours.
Who can be seen at a Behavioral Health Urgent Care center?
People with urgent behavioral health needs can be seen at a BHUC. An urgent mental health or substance use need may include changes in behavior or thoughts that cause distress and require immediate support through psychiatric evaluation or therapy. This may also include substance use that requires immediate intervention.
Important: BHUCs are not for those experiencing emergency symptoms with immediate risk of harm to themselves or others.
