|
|
| Levels of Eating Disorder Care and Referral Sources Hospitalization: For individuals who need 24-hour medical attention due to malnurishment, electrolyte imbalances, cardiac conditions, severe dehydration. Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, CA Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA Residential Treatment: For individuals who need the structure of a 24-hour program, but that are not severely medically compromised. Eating Disorder behaviors are severe and require supervision. These programs manage medical symptoms of the eating disorder. The individual cannot reduce behavior at a lower level and require more structure. The individual may also lack the appropriate social support and needs help with normalizing eating behaviors. These programs tend to be in a home like setting that mimic the "real-world" Center for Discovery (adolescents), Menlo Park, CA and Edmunds, WA Center for Change, Orem, Utah Center for Hope, Reno, NV Montenido, Malibu, CA Mirasol, Tucson, AZ New Dawn Eating Disorder Recovery Center, San Francisco, CA Remuda Ranch, Tucson, AZ Rosewood, Wickenberg, AZ Renfrew Center Philadelphia, PA Timberline Knolls, Lemont, IL Partial Hospitalization (PHP) or Day Treatment: For individuals who do not reduce behaviors at a lower level of care or need the day time structure of a program to normalize eating. These programs are between 6-8 hours per day and start out at five days per week. They include meals in treatment, but the individual also gets to be at home with their loved ones at night. Herrick Alta Bates, Berkeley, CA La Ventana, San Francisco, CA New Dawn Eating Disorder Recovery Centers, Sausalito, CA Summit Eating Disorder Program, Sacramento, CA Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP): For individuals who need more structure than a typical outpatient program and who could benefit from a more intensive outpatient plan. These programs are at minimum 3 hours per day 1-5 days a week. Casa Serena Eating Disorder Program, Concord, CA El Cielo Eating Disorder, Belmont, CA La Ventana Eating Disorder Program, San Francisco, CA New Dawn Eating Disorder Recovery Center, Sausalito, CA Summit Eating Disorder Program, Sacramento, CA Woodleaf Eating Disorder, San Francisco, CA Outpatient Programs: Treatment with outpatient providers for individual, family, group therapy, nutrition therapy, and psychiatry. It is common for a multidisiplinary treatment team to work collaboratively to help treat the eating disorder so that a higher level of care can be prevented. Also indicated in an aftercare plan after one has undergone treatment in a higher level of care. This treatment can be more long term to maintain progress and to address the underlying causes of the disorder and to address ongoing life stressors. Treatment can be one a week or more depending on the level of severity of the eating disorder.
| |
|