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Type of Care

1. Substance use treatment

Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).

Type of Opioid Treatment

1. Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

Treatment Approaches

1. Cognitive behavioral therapy

Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.

2. Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.

3. Substance use disorder counseling

A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.

4. Trauma-related counseling

Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).

5. 12-step facilitation

A 12-step program is a support group made up of people who share the same addiction. The "12 steps" refer to the steps recovering addicts must take to overcome their addiction as part of this program. Attendees at group meetings share their experiences, challenges, successes and failures, and provide peer support for each other.

6. Brief intervention

A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.

7. Motivational interviewing

A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.

8. Anger management

Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.

9. Matrix Model

Provides a framework for substance abuse users to obtain the ability to cease drug use, stay in treatment, and participate in an educational program on addiction and relapse. Users are provided with direction and support from a trained therapist and are introduced to self-help programs.

10. Relapse prevention

A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.

Facility Smoking Policy

1. Smoking permitted in designated area

A designated area in which smoking is permitted.

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

1. Outpatient

Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.

2. Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization

3. Intensive outpatient treatment

4. Regular outpatient treatment

License/Certification/Accreditation

1. State Substance use treatment agency

Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.

2. State department of health

3. Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)

An independent non-profit accreditor of health and human services.

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

1. Cash or self-payment

Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.

2. Medicaid

A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.

3. Medicare

The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.

4. State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

5. Private health insurance

6. Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

7. IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds

Direct funds from the Indian Health Service. They consist of tribal funds through "638 contracts" (named after the public law under which they were authorized) and/or urban funds through federal Title 5 grants. These funds are considered part of the Indian healthcare system and can be used for programs that provide behavioral health services as well as for programs that provide other health-related services.

8. SAMHSA funding/block grants

Language Services

1. Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Special Programs/Groups Offered

1. Adolescents

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Adolescents.

2. Adult women

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult women.

3. Adult men

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.

4. Young adults

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Transitional age young adults.

Ancillary Services

1. Case management service

Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

2. Suicide prevention services

Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.

3. Domestic violence services, including family or partner

Provide safety assistance to victims of domestic violence.

4. Early intervention for HIV

Early detection and treatment of HIV, which can help prevent the onset of AIDS and other opportunistic infections.

5. Mental health services

Assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.

6. Social skills development

Recovery Support Services

1. Mentoring/peer support

2. Housing services

Are designed to assist individuals with finding and maintaining appropriate housing arrangements.

3. Employment counseling or training

Advises, coaches, provides information to and supports people who are planning, seeking and managing their life/work direction.

4. Self-help groups

Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.

5. Recovery coach

Are provided by mental health consumers and include mental health treatment or support services, such as social clubs, peer-support groups, and other peer-organized or consumer-run activities (e.g., consumer satisfaction evaluations of mental health treatment).

Assessment/Pre-treatment

1. Screening for tobacco use

Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.

2. Comprehensive substance use assessment

3. Interim services for clients

4. Outreach to persons in the community

5. Screening for mental disorders

Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.

6. Screening for substance use

Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.

7. Professional interventionist/educational consultant

Education and Counseling Services

1. Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.

2. Individual counseling

Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

3. Group counseling

Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.

4. Family counseling

A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.

5. Marital/couples counseling

6. HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support

Access to education, counseling, and support groups to ‘at risk’ individuals and also individuals who have been infected with the virus.

7. Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis

Any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.

8. Substance use disorder education

9. Hepatitis education, counseling, or support

Provides education, counseling, and guidance and support for individuals who are at risk for or potentially infected with the hepatitis virus.

Age Groups Accepted

1. Children/Adolescents

Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.

Gender Accepted

1. Female

Female

2. Male

Male

Exclusive Services

1. Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients

Transitional Services

1. Aftercare/continuing care

2. Discharge Planning

A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.

3. Naloxone and overdose education

4. Outcome follow-up after discharge

Testing

1. Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.

2. Drug or alcohol urine screening

Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.

3. TB screening

Skin tests that are used to screen people who are at high risk for TB exposure such as people with diseases or conditions that weaken their immune system.

4. Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

1. Private non-profit organization

A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.

External Opioid Medications Source

1. Other contracted prescribing entity

2. No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

1. Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

1. Other contracted prescribing entity

2. No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Facility Vaping Policy

1. Vaping permitted in designated area

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Contact:
253-851-2552
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Address:
5122 Olympic Drive
Suite A-105<br /> WA, Gig Harbor, 98335, Pierce