Healthcare Alternative Systems South

Healthcare Alternative Systems South is an outpatient addiction treatment center in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. They offer intensive outpatient and standard outpatient care for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders.

Services include biopsychosocial assessment and counseling, medication assisted recovery for opioid dependence and evidence based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing and 12 step facilitation.

Care for Chicago's Spanish Speaking Community

HAS traces its roots to 1972, when two individuals in recovery from alcoholism recognized that Chicago's Hispanic community had virtually no treatment services available to it.

More than 50 years later, that founding purpose remains operational rather than historical. Most services at the South Western Avenue location are offered in both English and Spanish, and the organization describes its care as multicultural and multilingual at its core, not as an add on translation service.

For a prospective patient in Brighton Park or elsewhere on Chicago's South Side, this matters in a concrete way.

Treatment that depends on nuanced conversation, including dual diagnosis counseling and group work, functions differently when a patient can speak in their first language.

HAS South in Chicago is a natural fit for Spanish speaking adults and families who have found mainstream programs inaccessible and it also serves adolescents, pregnant and postpartum women, LGBT clients and court referred clients.

Sliding Scale Fees and Treatment

Healthcare Alternative Systems states that its bilingual recovery services are intended for all people, regardless of insurance eligibility or financial status.

The clinic accepts Medicaid, private insurance and self payment, and applies a sliding fee scale with payment assistance available.

HAS South serves Chicago and surrounding Illinois communities with sister locations in Broadview, Melrose Park and elsewhere across Cook and DuPage counties, and accepts Medicaid, private insurance and sliding scale self payment.