Ridge Behavioral Health System
Jill Patterson is a highly experienced psychiatric nurse practitioner currently serving at Ridge Behavioral Health System since March 2021 and as the owner of Bluegrass Behavioral Health Services since August 2020, where Jill provides mental health and addiction outpatient services. Additionally, Jill has held positions at the Hope Center since September 2019 and at The Hope Center since March 2019, both as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Previous experience includes working as a psychiatry/addiction ARNP at Addiction Treatment Centers from October 2018 to August 2020, and as a psychiatric ARNP at Saint John's Anderson Center from March 2011 to January 2018, where Jill was the primary mental health provider for inpatient and outpatient care. Earlier roles include serving as an ARNP at Eastern State Hospital from December 2007 to March 2011, focusing on assessing, diagnosing, and treating acute and chronic medical conditions in a psychiatric setting. Jill holds a Master's degree in Nursing from the University of Kentucky.
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Ridge Behavioral Health System
There is a place where pain is met with compassion, fear is met with reassurance and anger is met with understanding. At The Ridge Behavioral Health System, we are making a difference in people’s lives. We treat children, adolescents and adults. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, The Ridge offers a healing environment to reassure patients’ sense of security and confidentiality. Dedicated to excellence, The Ridge is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, as a licensed, 110-bed hospital, providing psychiatric (mental health) and substance use disorder (drug and alcohol rehabilitation) services to children, adolescents and adults. Inpatient care is provided on a 24-hour basis, seven days a week. Outpatient and partial hospitalization services are provided on a five-day per week basis, days and evenings. Care is provided according to an established code of ethical conduct and strict adherence to patient rights. The Ridge’s treatment philosophy is based on an understanding that mental health and substance use disorder treatment requires a team approach with a caring, positive attitude in which all participants are treated with respect and dignity.