Long Term Residential Treatment

Long term residential treatment provides care 24 hours a day, generally in nonhospital settings. The most popular treatment model is the therapeutic community, with planned lengths of stay that range from 6 to 12 months. Treatments focus on the socialization of the individual and use the program community including other residents, staff and the social context as active components of treatment. Residential treatment facilities view addiction in the context of the social and psychological deficits of the individual and treatment focuses on developing personal accountability and responsibility as well as socially productive lives. Treatment is highly structured and can be confrontational at times, with activities designed to help residents examine damaging beliefs, self concepts and destructive patterns of behavior and adopt new, more harmonious and constructive ways to interact with others. Many facilities offer comprehensive services that can include employment training and other support services. Research shows that modifiable facilities best treat individuals with special needs, including adolescents, women, homeless individuals, people with severe mental disorders and individuals in the criminal justice system.

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House Calls

A house call, or Physician house call, is an act of customer service where the doctors goes to the consumers home, rather than the consumer visiting the suppliers place of business. House calls are most often associated with doctor house calls. There are still doctors making house calls. The physician-led multidisciplinary team provides comprehensive, patient-centered care for any condition, from the simple problems to the very complex, in the patient’s own environment. Thanks to modern technology and our sophisticated, multi-faceted delivery system, we can do more tests and procedures in our patient’s home or place of business than other primary care physicians do in their office. House call doctors are equipped to perform most procedures normally performed in a medical office. House call doctors utilize electronic medical records and will coordinate home health and hospice services, mobile imaging services, durable medical equipment services, laboratory services, and specialist referral services. House call doctors acts as the primary care physician or as augmentation to or as an interim physician to the patients’ present medial team. Doctor’s House calls provide post hospital stabilization service to physicians, insurance plans, and hospitals to mitigate hospital re-admissions.