Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center

Maricopa Integrated Health System's Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center

The MIHS Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center is a 100+ bed psychiatric hospital located near downtown Mesa, Arizona. This Southwestern city with its dry, comfortable winters and hot summers, offers numerous cultural and recreational opportunities as well as a moderate cost of living. The State is well known for its multicultural population and thus the house staff is involved with the care of patients from a variety of cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. The Department and Program are based in the Desert Vista Behavioral Health Center which opened in 2001 with facilities for teaching and clinical service. The Center has six inpatient adult units for voluntary and involuntary psychiatric treatment. Desert Vista has a resident run outpatient clinic as well as a dedicated behavioral health library including internet resources that have full access to multiple researchable web-based sites including the Arizona Health Information Network Cochrane, and, Uptodate. Resident physicians have there own offices and multiple classrooms are available for teaching and quiet study breaks.

The MIHS Behavioral Health Annex is located in downtown Phoenix adjacent to the Maricopa Medical Center. It has 60+ beds and includes a geriatric psychiatry unit. The consultation-liaison and emergency psychiatry services are also located in the Psychiatric Center.

Through its Department of Psychiatry, the Medical Center serves as the parent for the Psychiatric Residency Training Program and provides sponsorship, funds, faculty, and clinical settings for the program.

Last updated on December 16, 2009