Holyoke Medical Center The Center for Behavioral Health

The Center for Behavioral Health at Holyoke Medical Center is a hospital based drug and alcohol treatment program in Holyoke, Massachusetts and serves adults and young adults with substance use and psychiatric disorders.

Services include inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program as well as counseling, medication management and specialized co occurring disorder groups.

Inpatient Psychiatric Care

The program runs three newly constructed adult inpatient units on the Holyoke Medical Center campus and its short term PHP/IOP is designed either as an alternative to hospitalization or as a faster transition out of an inpatient stay.

A patient stabilized on one of the inpatient units can step down into intensive outpatient care without a new intake, a new clinical team or a transfer of records between organizations.

The partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs are built to pair intensive group therapy and daily structure with psychopharmacology evaluation from a board certified psychiatrist.

If you're in Holyoke and weighing a freestanding rehab against a hospital program, I want to note that the same system that handles a psychiatric crisis also handles the weeks of structured outpatient work that follow it.

TMS and ECT for Treatment Resistant Conditions

The Center for Behavioral Health offers transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy and electroconvulsive therapy with trained professional staff when indicated.

These are hospital grade interventions for severe or treatment resistant depression and other psychiatric conditions, and they are rarely available at standard addiction treatment centers.

For a patient whose prior treatment attempts stalled because an underlying psychiatric condition never responded to medication or talk therapy alone, this changes the ceiling of what outpatient addiction care can address.

It also signals who this program is not for: someone seeking a residential, retreat style recovery environment will find a clinical, medical model setting instead.

The program serves residents of Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties and accepts most insurance plans including Medicare and Medicaid, with financial counselors and assistance available for uninsured patients.