Accepting New Patients: Yes
Gender: Female
Began Practicing: 2001
Languages: English,
Rajalla E. Prewitt , M.D.
Specialties:
Primary Location: St. Vincent Medical Office Building
Accepting New Patients: Yes
Gender: Female
Began Practicing: 2001
Languages: English,
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Phone: 216.363.2580, option 3
Hours:
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Disabled Access: Yes
Public Transportation: No
Biography:
Rajalla E. Prewitt, M.D. is the clinical medical director of St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services. She joined St. Vincent Charity’s Behavioral Health medical staff in 2021 and currently provides outpatient behavioral health services. She is dual board certified in adult psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry.
Previously, Dr. Prewitt served as medical director of the adolescent inpatient unit and as an attending psychiatrist for the adult partial hospitalization program at Snowden at Fredericksburg of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and as an outpatient adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist for Gaertner Psychiatric PC, which is a full-service inpatient and outpatient psychiatric medical practice serving Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virgina. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Prewitt served as a psychiatrist at the Center for Family Guidance in Marlton, New Jersey.
Dr. Prewitt holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from John Carroll University and a medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and fellowship in child/adolescent psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she was chief resident of child/adolescent psychiatry.
Education
University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Fellowship - 0
University of Cincinnati Residency - 0
The Ohio State University College of Medicine Medical School - 0
John Carroll University - Bachelor of Science in Biology - 0
Treatment & Services
- Anger management
- Anger/Stress Management
- Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorders
- Assessment and Diagnosis
- Behavioral health
- Bipolar and related disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Counseling
- Depression
- Depressive Disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Major depressive disorder
- Mental health
- Mood Disorders
- Other mental disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Stress management
- Trauma and stress-related disorders
Insurance Accepted
- AETNA ELECT CHOICE - HMO
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September 3, 2019
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