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Long-Acting Therapy Clinic

Specialized long-acting treatments to stabilize serious mental illness and support recovery.

Our clinic, led by clinical pharmacy specialists in collaboration with psychiatry, nursing, and care coordination, provides long-acting injectable medication and intranasal esketamine for patients with complex mental health diagnoses to improve adherence, reduce hospitalizations, and restore daily functioning.

What is the Long-Acting Therapy Clinic?

The Long-Acting Therapy Clinic at Memorial Healthcare System is a pioneering practice in South Florida that administers and monitors long-acting injectable antipsychotic medications. Our expert clinical pharmacy specialists work closely with your prescriber, nursing staff, and care coordinators to ensure you receive ongoing, coordinated support.

Our expert clinical pharmacy specialists work closely with your prescriber, nursing staff, and care coordinators to ensure you receive ongoing, coordinated support. Care at the clinic goes beyond medication: we monitor treatment response and side effects, manage follow-up dosing and safety checks, and connect you with Memorial's Primary Care Centers and community mental health resources resources as needed to support whole-person recovery.

Learn more about the monthly THRIVE long‑acting therapy group at the Outpatient Behavioral Health Center in Davie.

Conditions We Treat With Long-Acting Therapy

Our team uses long-acting therapy medications to treat:

To get started, you’ll need a referral from your pharmacist, psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner. We’ll need to renew your referral every 12 months.

Long-Acting Antipsychotic Treatments

Many people living with severe mental illness benefit from medication. For individuals who do not achieve stable symptom control with oral medications, long-acting injectable antipsychotics provide a more reliable alternative. Long-acting formulations are evidence-based, well-tolerated, and effective at improving symptom stability and functional recovery. They are especially valuable for patients who struggle with daily adherence, because missed doses of oral medication increase the risk of relapse, hospitalization, and symptom worsening. Our Long-Acting Therapy Clinic delivers these treatments within a coordinated care model to maximize safety, monitor response, and support sustained recovery.