Outpatient Behavioral Health Services Center

Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)

A nonresidential treatment program, the Partial Hospitalization Program offers intensive services that are traditionally found in an inpatient program, but in a less than 24-hour setting. These services include therapy with a Dialectical Behavioral informed and mindfulness counseling approach, nursing service, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management, as well as group, individual, and family therapy. The program is available a minimum of five days a week, and staff is available to schedule meetings and sessions at a variety of times to support family involvement for the individual receiving services.

Treatment plans are collaboratively developed by the multidisciplinary team (including the individual, their family, or other support as appropriate) to integrate individual experience, strengths, and needs. This includes the coordination of medication management; consultation for general medical needs; psychological, pharmacy, pastoral, and emergency medical services; laboratory needs, dietary needs and other diagnostic services.

Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is a treatment that provides a structured multidisciplinary therapeutic milieu for patients experiencing an emotional crisis and or flare up of a psychiatric condition or co-occurring disorders that impacts their mental health. A core goal of the program is to avert further decompensation; humanistic validation and DBT informed skill based training to empower healthy changes. The IOP is more intensive than traditional outpatient service but less rigorous than a partial hospitalization intervention.

The short-term program runs three hours a day, three days a week, with an average Length of stay of 4 to 6 weeks. Comprehensive treatment includes psychosocial assessment, collaborative comprehensive treatment planning, community provider integration, and individual counseling referral support.

Long Acting Injectable Clinic (LAIC)

The Long Acting Injectable Clinic provides onsite administration and onsite monitoring of long-acting antipsychotic medications for treatment of patients suffering from a wide variety of psychotic disorders. Numerous studies have indicated that Long-acting antipsychotics can be a highly beneficial treatment option for serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar psychotic disorders. Our team of psychiatrists, pharmacists, licensed mental health therapists, and nurse’s work together with the patient to provide a calming environment and holistic empowering experience. Education on LAI medication benefits, how compliance can help to reduce risk of relapse, hospitalizations, other adverse outcomes is available upon request.

Traditional Individual, Family and Group Psychotherapy Services

Traditional individual, family, and group psychotherapy services are weekly therapeutic visits facilitated by our team of board certified licensed psychotherapist. The clinicians are specialized to help those who need to talk through various life issues, process stressful experiences, manage emotional problems and mental health illnesses.

Contact Information

For more information please contact the Outpatient Behavioral Health Center at 305-674-2627 or via email at Php.Iop@msmc.com

Programs and services are covered by most insurance plans and self-pay packages are available upon request for all levels of care.