Emergency Services, Kreisman Center Crisis Stabilization Unit

The Kreisman Center Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) is the Florida Mental Health Act receiving facility for Sarasota and DeSoto counties and provides brief, intensive mental health treatment services for adults and children who are experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis and would otherwise require hospitalization.

Children and adolescents can be admitted involuntarily or voluntarily as long as they meet the Florida Mental Health Act criteria. Our 15-bed Child/ Adolescent Unit is a structured program and offers individual, group, and family therapy. While at the CSU, children and adolescents attend school, provided by a certified teacher. The focus of the Children’s CSU is to stabilize the child so that he or she can return to the community and continue treatment on an outpatient basis.

Services are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

	Coastal Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. has received the prestigious Negley Chairman’s Award, a national award based on Excellence in Risk Management.The award was the culmination of a study conducted at Coastal’s Kreisman Center Crisis Stabilization Unit entitled Medication Variations Performance Improvement Project 2002-2003. The Award, and $5,000 cash prize, was presented at the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pictured are Denise Flynn, Nurse Manager at the CSU & Sandra Cohen, Chief Administrative Services & Compliance Officer.

1451 10th Street
Sarasota, FL 34234
(941)364-9355