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BC Neuropsychiatry Program at UBC Hospital

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Masks are currently required in all patient care areas of hospitals, long-term care facilities and community health-care sites and clinics. Please do not enter these facilities if you have cold or flu-like symptoms, such as runny nose, sore throat, fever, cough, shortness of breath/trouble breathing, diarrhea or vomiting. Do not enter these facilities if you feel unwell, no matter how mild the symptoms. 

Visitors to long-term care and seniors’ assisting living facilities need to wear a medical mask in common areas and when participating in indoor events in common areas. 

Thank you for helping keep patients and staff healthy this season.

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If there is an urgent safety concern, please call 9-1-1 or go to emergency at your nearest hospital.

Suicide hotline: 1-800-784-2433

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KUU-US Crisis Support Line (BC Wide Indigenous Toll Free Crisis and Support Line): 1-800-588-8717

The Neuropsychiatry Program treats adults with brain injuries or diseases causing serious disturbances in behaviour, mood, intellectual abilities or thinking processes and somatoform disorders.

How to access

  • Check eligibility

    • Adults aged 19 and above

    We accept referrals for consideration to the UBC Neuropsychiatry Program for patients with:

    • Dementia of any cause,  with either major behavioral or psychiatric components, and/or a need to exclude a causal or contributing psychiatric illness (e.g. pseudodementia)
    • Neurological disease, injury or condition leading to a psychiatric presentation
    • Episodic disturbances thought to possibly result from a neurological disorder,  such as epilepsy
    • Unresponsive states, such as catatonia
    • Movement disorders that require psychiatric interventions such as tardive dyskinesia, Parkinson's disease or Huntington's disease
    • Somatoform & conversion disorders

    We do not accept referrals for:

    • Neuropsychological Testing
    • Developmental Disorders, including Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
    • Autism Spectrum Disorder, including Asperger's Disorder- Refer to CLBC or Spectrum
    • Patients with active medical/legal cases, including ICBC
    • Patients with active WorkSafe BC cases unless referred via a WorkSafe BC medical advisor 

  • Get a referral

    You must be referred by a doctor or hospital within BC or the Yukon. 

    Find referral forms and instructions on the BC NP website.  Click on the top left corner "Program Description & Referral Forms" to access information.

Hours of operation

Outpatient Clinic: Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Inpatient Units: Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You must be referred by a doctor or hospital within BC or the Yukon.

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UBC Hospital (UBCH)

UBC Hospital (UBCH) is part of Vancouver Coastal Health and is one of British Columbia's foremost teaching and research facilities situated on the University of British Columbia campus.

Neuropsychiatry Program

The Neuropsychiatry Program treats adults with brain injuries or diseases causing serious disturbances in behaviour, mood, intellectual abilities or thinking processes and somatoform disorders.