Your Inquiry Has Been Received
Thank you for referring a patient to Rady Children’s Eating Disorders Medical Behavioral Unit. Rady Children’s will respond to your inquiry within 1 business days.
If you haven’t already, please call the on-call provider to inform them of your referral by paging them through the Rady Children’s Operator (858-576-1700) and asking to page the eating disorder physician on-call.
For non-urgent or general inquiries, you can call the eating disorder main line at 858-576-1700 ext 225368.
Additional Steps
If a patient is accepted for medical stabilization on the Medical Behavioral Unit, the family will need to speak to the psychology team regarding care. Please have them call 858-576-1700 ext. 225368 to discuss treatment.
The sending facility should initiate authorization for MEDICAL care at RCHSD. A behavioral health authorization will not NOT be accepted. Please call the case management team at 858-576-1700 ext. 223834 and request to speak to the “MBU case manager of the day.”