Level I – Outpatient Treatment (OP) – The program encompasses organized outpatient treatment services which may be delivered in a variety of settings. In Level I services, addiction treatment staff, including addition-credentialed physicians, provide professionally directed screening, evaluation, treatment and ongoing recovery and disease management services. These services are provided in regularly scheduled sessions of (usually) fewer than 9 (nine) contact hours a week.
- Outpatient Services Criteria Promotes Greater Access to Care for:
- Patients with co-occurring substance use and physical and mental health conditions.
- Individuals not interested in recovery who are mandated into treatment, and others who previously only had access to care if they agreed to intensive periods of primary treatment.
- Individuals who are in early stages of readiness to change through knowledge and application of evidence-based therapies such as motivational interviewing (MI), motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused therapy, and stages of change work.
- Patients in early recovery who need education about addiction and person centered treatment.
- Patients in ongoing recovery who need monitoring and continuing disease management.
- Goals Include:
- Clinical psychotherapy and support services, including involvement of family members and significant others
- Supportive, caring and sensitive environment and staff whose mission is to provide the utmost quality of care
- Medication stabilization, as necessary
- Preparing the patient for ongoing treatment of their substance dependence in a lower level of care
- Patient transition to higher phases and continuation of treatment
Level II – Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP) – Our intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) generally provide 9 (nine) or more hours of structured programming per week consisting of counseling and education about substance-related and mental health problems. The patient’s need for psychiatric and medical services are addressed through consultation and referral arrangements if the patient is stable and only requires maintenance monitoring.
- IOP Goals:
- Clinical psychotherapy and support services, including involvement of family members and significant others
- Supportive, caring and sensitive environment and staff whose mission is to provide the utmost quality of care
- Medication stabilization, as necessary
- Preparing the patient for ongoing treatment of their substance dependence in a lower level of care
- Patient transition to higher phases and continuation of treatment
- Individuals who do not meet criteria for this level of care will be referred to appropriate services which are not provided by the facility.
