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The clinic on North Broad Street will open its doors to patients on Sept. 3.
A walk-in clinic designed to support people with mental health needs will open next month on North Broad Street. Clinicians at the clinic will provide assistance with medications, anxiety and depression, and substance use, among other issues, for patients who aren’t at risk of harming themselves or others.
The new approach is billed by the city as the first mental health clinic in Philadelphia that is equivalent to an urgent care, a place for people to receive care for issues that don’t require the full muscle of a crisis center or emergency department.
The Merakey Mental Health Walk-In Clinic will be staffed by clinicians from Merakey, a large provider of behavioral health and intellectual disability services, who will offer same-day services regardless of the patient’s ability to pay.
Providers in the clinic will support people who have mental health needs but aren’t in crisis, such as patients overwhelmed with anxiety, processing grief or a traumatic event, or suffering from postpartum depression, said Mark O’Dwyer, Merakey’s executive director for mental health outpatient services.
