Kuopio Psychiatry Center

The outpatient care and outpatient rehabilitation services of the Kuopio Psychiatry Center are intended for 20 to 64-year-old citizens of Kuopio, and other patients and rehabilitees in the Kuopio University Hospital district. The patient's own health centre is the primary place of treatment.  In acute situations outside office hours, patients receive treatment at the joint emergency clinic. The Crisis Center helps in acute, stressful life situations, while the Kuopio Psychiatry Center offers treatment and rehabilitation services based on a referral from a physician. Depression, anxiety, and psychosis are the most common causes for seeking treatment.

Appointments

Appointments can be made with the unit in Viestikatu in Kuopio, as well as with the units in Vehmersalmi, Karttula, Nilsiä and Maaninka. Various individual, family and group therapies and medication are utilised in the treatment. The adult psychiatry intensive outpatient care working group provides intensive, fixed-term outpatient care. In addition, family and network work is performed in homes, taking children into account.

Rehabilitation Services

Rehabilitation uses individual rehabilitation counselling as well as discussion and activity groups. Access to the groups can be applied for through the employee doing the treatment. The Kipinä rehabilitation working group offers intensive rehabilitative support and training to cope in everyday life for rehabilitees whose ability to function has been impaired in several areas of life.

The Rehabilitation Unit

Tukiporras, a rehabilitation unit with six beds, operates round the clock on weekdays. It provides fixed-term examination and rehabilitation periods for mental health rehabilitees who need help coping with everyday life.

Group Homes

Group homes are intended for rehabilitative support housing. The group homes in Päiväranta have six beds for women and three for men.