Bringing Medical Care Into the Behavioral Health Setting 

Neighborhood Health recently joined the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB) for an open house highlighting our partnership at the Sharon Bulova Center for Community Health and Neighborhood Health’s new Same Day Clinic within CSB Emergency Services. 

Launched in August, the Same Day Clinic helps CSB clients age 16 and older access medical care for common, acute, non-emergency health needs. Patients are referred by their CSB behavioral health provider or case manager, or, for patients already co-managed by Neighborhood Health and the CSB, by a Neighborhood Health nurse. Depending on clinical need and capacity, patients can be seen the same day.  

The clinic can address a range of everyday medical concerns, including mild skin infections and rashes, gastrointestinal problems, fever and body aches, urinary tract infections, STI screening, pregnancy testing, and other non-emergency conditions.  

This partnership is an extension of Neighborhood Health’s commitment to integrated behavioral and physical health care. Our behavioral health services work alongside primary care to address mental health and substance use needs as part of a patient’s overall health. At the Sharon Bulova Center, that same philosophy means making medical care more readily available to people already receiving behavioral health services rather than requiring them to navigate another healthcare setting. 

Neighborhood Health staff at the center also provide medical clearance for individuals who need psychiatric placement or admission to the Wellness Circle Crisis Stabilization program. 

The open house gave staff and community partners an opportunity to meet the Neighborhood Health team, learn about the Same Day Clinic, and see how the collaboration is helping connect medical and behavioral health services. 

We are grateful to the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board for its partnership and shared commitment to making care more coordinated and accessible for our neighbors. 

By meeting patients where they are, Neighborhood Health is helping ensure that behavioral health and physical health are treated as essential parts of the same continuum of care.