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Crisis support

If there is a life-threatening safety concern, please call 9-1-1 or go to the Emergency Department at your nearest hospital.

Suicide prevention hotline: 1-800-784-2433

BC Crisis Line: 310-6789

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868

Indigenous Crisis and Support Line - KUU-US Crisis Support Line: 1-800-588-8717

Harm reduction: Toward the Heart 

​The HOpe Centre Mental Health Inpatient Unit (also known as HOpe 4) provides acute inpatient assessment and treatment services. Services are multi-disciplinary with the goal of stabilizing the acute illness and linking the patient to community mental health and substance use services for follow-up and continued treatment and recovery.

Acute Inpatient Services provides:

  • Comprehensive assessment including psychiatric, physical, psychosocial, occupational, spiritual and nursing information
  • Personalized care plans designed by the treatment team in collaboration with the individual and/or the family as appropriate
  • Treatment based on the individual’s care plan
  • Discharge planning to enable the individual greatest success

A therapeutic activity program is available and activities are scheduled each morning. All patients are encouraged to participate as they are able.

How to access

  • Check eligibility

    • Adults aged 19 and over who require psychiatric hospitalization in an acute care, mental health setting.
    • The patient population may include people experiencing mental illness, concurrent disorders, eating disorders, head injuries, dementia and forensic issues.

Hours of operation

Currently closed
  • Monday:   5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Tuesday:   5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday:   5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Thursday:   5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Friday:   5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Saturday:   3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Sunday:   3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Holidays 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

More about the services

Acute Inpatient Services provides:

  • Comprehensive assessment including psychiatric, physical, psychosocial, occupational, spiritual and nursing information
  • Personalized care plans designed by the treatment team in collaboration with the individual and/or the family as appropriate
  • Treatment based on the individual’s care plan
  • Discharge planning to enable the individual greatest success

A therapeutic activity program is available and activities are scheduled each morning. All patients are encouraged to participate as they are able.

Learn about the location

HOpe Centre

The HOpe Centre on the Lions Gate Hospital campus is the focal point for mental health services on the North Shore.

Learn about the service

Psychiatric Inpatient Services

Psychiatric inpatient services provide assessment and treatment to adults who require acute 24-hour management in a hospital setting.