Behavioral Health Urgent Care, Central Florida’s first solely psychiatric urgent care, is open in Celebration, Florida. Lawrence B. Erlich, M.D. and his team of counselors and therapists offer urgent care services for individuals in crisis. Through the crisis intervention center, they offer addictions evaluations, mental status examinations, evaluations for drug seeking behavior and immediate psychiatric evaluation.

Dr. Erlich is board-certified in general, forensic and addiction psychiatry. Together, he and his team will offer crisis intervention care for most behavioral conditions.

Patients who are committed to a psychiatric hospital while in crisis can often wait days to see a doctor. Through the Behavioral Health Urgent Care program, patients are able to see a doctor or counselor in a timely fashion to determine the best course of action for improvement. Rather than spending days in a hospital bed, they are able to get the care they need in an outpatient setting. Similarly, this opens up beds at receiving hospitals for other patients and helps to relieve the overflow that many hospitals experience. 

 With the potential for drug-seeking behavior on the rise, Behavioral Health Urgent Care also accepts referrals from physicians who determine that a patient needs an addictions evaluation. Behavioral Health Urgent Care offers in-person evaluations as well as psychological testing to create a full picture of the patient’s potential for drug seeking behavior.

 For more information, please visit our website at www.behavioralurgentcare.com or call 407-852-8882.