Psychiatry Residency Greenville - Training Sites

Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital, a 710-bed regional referral center for the Upstate area. Greenville Memorial Hospital is home to a 24-hour Level I trauma center, along with the Upstate’s only pediatric trauma center.

The campus also houses a number of other facilities and programs, including Prisma Health Children’s Hospital–Upstate, Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital and Prisma Health Cancer Institute, which provides patients access to numerous cutting-edge treatments and clinical trials.

Prisma Health Marshall I. Pickens hospital is an acute psychiatric hospital for patients in crisis. There are dedicated units for adult patients (24 beds), geriatric patients (10 beds), and child and adolescent patients (9 beds). There is also an intensive management unit (9 beds). Patients are treated by an interdisciplinary team including physicians, social workers, nurses, pharmacists, mental health technicians, utilization review, and other disciplines as needed. Residents have the opportunity to lead this group in regular treatment team meetings. Patients benefit from pharmacological as well as individual and group therapeutic interventions. Patients are also able to receive ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) on campus if needed.

Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Psychiatry Services

Adult Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Services at Marshall I. Pickens Hospital are part of the comprehensive health, behavioral health and wellness services available at Prisma Health. For adults who require intensive outpatient behavioral health services, Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs provide a variety of therapeutic interventions related to major depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that help individuals work toward their wellness. In addition to the general program described above, a Substance Use and Co-Occurring Intensive Outpatient Program was started in June 2024 and provides therapeutic services to individuals with active substance use disorders and co-occuring psychiatric illnesses. 

The following list is representative (but not exhaustive) of therapeutic interventions used:

• Group, individual and family therapy/involvement
• Interactive activities
• Medication management
• Individualized treatment plans and goals
• Discharge planning, including coordination of care back to the referring provider

Greater Greenville Mental Health consists of two different centers located in Greenville County; downtown Greenville and Simpsonville. Greenville County is the only county in the South Carolina Department of Mental Health system with two outpatient facilities. These centers provide cost affordable services to a diverse population of individuals that include adults, children, and adolescents. The mental health centers are dedicated to mental health wellness, awareness, education, and support. They have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to understanding the community and the resources that are available, plus they have fantastic programs, such as Art of Recovery, for patients to be involved in during treatment.

Site Director: Lynn Wright, MD 

Residents have longitudinal outpatient medication management clinics at two sites, the Brownell Center located at Marshall I. Pickens Hospital, and the Patewood office.  Residents also participate in longitudinal psychotherapy starting in the PGY-2 year with supervision, located primarily at the Patewood office.  At these two sites, residents see a large variety of psychiatric illnesses managed at the ambulatory level and are able to engage in various models of outpatient care, including integrated and collaborative models. 

Site Director: Darryl Brush, MD 

Patrick B. Harris Hospital serves as the state-run psychiatric hospital for the upstate of South Carolina. This hospital provides a valuable learning experience for residents, as they are able to treat patients who are diagnosed with chronic mental health diagnoses which often require longer hospitalizations ranging from months, to even years. Common diagnoses that the residents will encounter at this hospital are treatment resistant schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, neurocognitive disorders, substance induced psychosis, and many more. During the experience at Patrick B. Harris hospital, the resident will be involved in seeing a caseload of patients, participating, and eventually running treatment team, and working alongside their attending psychiatrist for various patient care endeavors.

Site Director: Theresa Bishop, MD

The Greenville County Detention Center is Greenville's correctional facility with an official rated capacity of 1,277. Inmates present with a wide range of psychopathologies and psychiatric residents will be expected to build on their PGY-1 and PGY-2 years to adapt their approach to each patient in a variety of correctional settings. 

The Phoenix Center is a non-profit that has been serving Greenville County for 45 years and is the county's largest provider of substance use services. With a dedicated staff and innovative programs, the Phoenix Center takes a proactive approach to preventing and treating substance use disorders. Residents will have the opportunity to see patients on their road to recovery and be exposed to a multifaceted approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.