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St. George Regional opens local adolescent day-treatment program to keep teens in community
Summary
St. George Regional Health described a new partial-hospitalization/day-treatment program for adolescents that aims to provide intensive therapy while allowing young patients to return home evenings and weekends, reducing out-of-area hospitalizations.
St. George Regional Health on Wednesday described a newly licensed adolescent partial-hospitalization program designed to offer intensive, evidence-based mental health treatment while allowing teens to return to their families each evening.
The Greater Washington City-area program, presenters said, operates like a “school day” Monday through Thursday with group- and individual-therapy sessions, family therapy and on-site nursing and psychiatric support. “We offer the same level of services as if an adolescent was going to stay in a hospital,” said Logan Gothrow, a St. George Regional Health representative, “except we make sure adolescents can be safe going home in the evenings and on the weekends.”
Why it matters: Until now, most inpatient or intensive adolescent psychiatric services in the region required sending young people to Salt Lake City or other…
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