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Behavioral Health Services
Our Behavioral Health programs include the Family Recovery
Center, the Mental Health Unit, Psychiatric Medicine,
and Behavioral Health Counseling, all located at 312
E. Alta Vista Avenue in Ottumwa. We also provide Child/Adolescent
Telemedicine Services.
Ottumwa Regional Health Center provides a full continuum
of care to patients in Wapello County and the surrounding
seven counties. In the Behavioral Health programs, as
is the rule at Ottumwa Regional Health Center in total,
all information concerning treatment is confidential.
The Family Recovery Center program treats adults,
age 18 and older, who suffer from the illness of addiction
to alcohol and/or drugs. Besides the chemically dependent
individual, we involve family and significant others
in the treatment process. The addiction treatment is
based on abstinence through the 12 Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous.
The Family Recovery Center uses a team of professionals
from various medical disciplines, support staff, and
community partnerships in providing excellent treatment.
Those who may be included, depending on the needs of
the patient are: physicians, psychiatrists/psychologists,
social workers, counselors, occupational/recreational
therapists, the clergy and various support staff.
Services include, but are not limited to:
- Assessment and Referral Services: Tests, questionnaires,
and interviews to ensure that each patient is referred
to the appropriate level of care to meet his or her
addiction treatment needs.
- Education: Each patient and family member is assigned
to a case manager who, with input from the patient,
will develop a personalized treatment plan. This plan
is designed to address the specific needs of the individual
during his or her treatment experience.
- Acute inpatient treatment: 24-hour care for patients
who exhibit medical problems in addition to their
addiction. These services are managed by our addictionologist,
certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine
and delivered by a team of trained nurses and clinicians.
- Residential treatment: 24-hour care for patients
who do not require continuous nursing care.
- Partial Hospitalization (two levels available):
These patients do not require hospitalization, but
need intensive treatment services.
- Intensive outpatient treatment: Typically, patients
are moved from inpatient to outpatient as they progress
in their recovery. However, some patients are found,
through the assessment process, to be appropriate
for direct admission to outpatient services. This
level is designed to treat patients who can continue
to function on the job and in the community while
participating in addiction treatment.
- Family services: The quality of recovery is enhanced
when a family member or concerned person (cp) attends
treatment activities to gain insight and knowledge
about addiction.
- Aftercare: We expect every patient and concerned
person who graduates from our treatment program to
develop an Aftercare plan prior to discharge. This
includes attendance at a weekly growth group for at
least the first 12 months following treatment; attendance
at weekly 12-Step meetings and; the patient's personal
plan for new behaviors relating to self, family, employment,
and recreation.
The Family Recovery Center is committed to be a "Center
of Hope and Recovery" for individuals and their
families. To this end, our primary mission is to provide
high quality, comprehensive addiction treatment services
without regard for the patient's creed, race, or social
position.
For more information about the Family Recovery Center
programs, call (641) 684-3170 or toll-free 1-800-482-7511.
Ottumwa Regional Health Center's Mental Health Unit
is designed to treat persons, age 18 and older, with
acute emotional distress. It provides a safe and secure
place to stay where the patient receives professional
care. The treatment program helps people:
- Recognize problems in their relationships with
others.
- Learn new methods of coping with their problems.
- Supports individuals while they are making difficult
adjustments in their personal lives.
- Recognize stressful events and how to deal with
them.
A team of medical professionals includes physicians,
psychiatrists, and psychologists as needed, registered
nurses, social workers, occupational/recreational therapists,
and activity technicians.
Services provided are:
- Individualized treatment planning: Working with
the patient and his or her family or significant other,
the team develops an individualized, goal-specific,
time oriented treatment plan which is revised and
reviewed every seven days or more often.
- Medical/Psychiatric Evaluation: Once an individual
is admitted to the unit, he or she will receive a
complete medical examination, if indicated, and psychiatric
and psychological evaluations.
- Education/Group Therapy: The treatment program
is designed to provide activities which enable the
patient to build on their strengths to overcome problems.
The program provides for personal expression and group
interaction.
- Spiritual Support: We offer the services of a full-time
chaplain who is available to meet individually with
patients upon request.
- Discharge Planning: Discharge planning is initiated
on the patient's arrival on the unit. Our treatment
team helps patients and their families with the necessary
support for a smoother, more confident transition
to life in the home, work place and community.
- Outpatient Services: We offer psychiatric partial
hospitalization in which persons receive treatment
from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
These services are provided in a group setting and
include education and emotional support.
- For more information about Ottumwa Regional's Mental
Health Unit, call (641) 684-3103.
Other Behavioral Health Services include:
- Child/Adolescent psychiatry
(641) 683-4454
Research conducted since the 1960s shows that children
and adolescents suffer from depression, anxiety disorders,
developmental disorders and learning disorders such
as attention deficit disorder, attachment disorders,
conduct disorders and substance abuse. Feelings of
parental guilt about a child's disorder are inappropriate.
The key is to recognize the problem and seek appropriate
treatment by a child/adolescent psychiatrist.
- Child/Adolescent Telemedicine Services
(641) 684-2367
Telemedicine meets the challenge of reaching and treating,
via interactive television, adolescents and children
in rural areas. They are referred by local physicians
and health care professionals to be treated by specialists
in metropolitan and teaching hospitals for psychiatric
neurological and developmental problems.
- Behavioral Health Counseling
(641) 684-3138
Licensed clinical social workers, who hold a Master's
Degree, provide counseling. In addition, they coordinate
services with other community providers on behalf
of clients.
- Employee Assistance Program
(641) 684-3138 or toll free 1-800-482-7511
This is a program entered into, by contract, between
employers and Ottumwa Regional Health Center's Employee
Assistance Program to assist employees who need personal
counseling. Click here
for additional information.
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