Access Health Services is an experienced and compassionate psychiatric, telepsychiatry, and wellness service provider at 1039 Bladensburg Rd. NE, Washington, DC 20002. Our health experts are committed to helping individuals and their families achieve their wellness goals. Experience excellent, state-of-the-art, patient-centered psychiatric care in a timely and efficient manner.
What are psychiatric services?
Psychiatry is a medical specialty that focuses on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions. Psychiatric services are provided by a psychiatrist, a doctor (MD or DO) who specializes in understanding mental health, including substance abuse.
At Access Health Services, our team of clinicians including psychiatrists, psychologists, and medical experts provide you with the highest quality of comprehensive mental health services. Our mission is to provide you with customized, tailored plans to cater to each individual’s mental health. By fostering a culture of respect, compassion, and collaboration with our patients, we strive to provide services that are sensitive, personalized, and integrated.
Our six aims of high-quality health care:
- Safe: avoiding injuries to patients from the care and treatment intended to benefit them.
- Effective: to ensure providing services strictly based on the latest medical and scientific knowledge to only those who could benefit and to those who are not likely to get benefits (avoiding underuse and overuse, respectively).
- Patient-centered care: to ensure care that is centered around the individual and specific needs and preferences of patients, ensuring patients value all clinical decisions.
- Timely: reducing potential harmful delays for both patients and carers.
- Efficient: Avoid any sort of waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
- Equitable: providing care that does not discriminate against patients based on gender, ethnicity, geographical location, or socioeconomic status.
What can you expect on your first visit to us?
Taking the step to seek psychiatric help can be both empowering and intimidating. A lot of people feel nervous about their first visit, but not to worry, our professionals are here to make you feel comfortable during the whole session.
Here are the following things you can expect:
- Initial Contact: You have to schedule your appointment, and our staff will ask for basic information such as name, age, etc.
- Paperwork and forms: the paperwork will ask you about your medical history, personal background, and current symptoms.
- Arrival and check-in: arrive a little early to have your basic formalities done and ensure you have time to complete all prerequisite paperwork.
- Meeting the psychiatrist: this first session with your psychiatrist probably would be longer as the psychiatrist would patiently listen and understand your symptoms, would go down through your medical history, ask a lot of questions regarding your general health, and get a drug test done if required.
- Treatment options: The psychiatrist will further discuss potential treatment options. This might include therapy, medication, lifestyle changes, or a combination of these.
Remember to communicate openly, ask questions, and express any worries you may have. Remember, the first visit is a collaborative step towards finding the most effective path to support your mental health, and the psychiatrist is there to guide you through the process.
Why choose us?
Our commitment to individualized and integrated treatment offers several benefits to our patients, including:
- Care based on continuous healing relationships: Our motto is to provide patients with care whenever and wherever they need it, not just during face-to-face visits. Our tele-psychiatric services aim to offer telephonic consultations irrespective of their geographical location.
- Customization based on patient needs and values: Our treatment plans are designed with flexibility and customization in mind to adapt to individual patient choices and preferences.
- Patient as the source of control: At Access Health Services, we strive to make our patients feel empowered to keep them updated with the necessary information and the opportunity to exercise a certain degree of control to make healthcare decisions that affect them. Our medical practitioners can accommodate differences in patient performance and encourage shared decision-making.
- Transparency: We make our patients and families aware of crucial information. This in turn helps them make informed decisions while selecting the desired health plan and clinical practice.
Take the first step towards mental well-being today. Access our expert psychiatric services for personalized support on your journey to a healthier mind. Book your first consultation now!