Healthcare Professionals Program
Program Highlights
The Healthcare Professionals Program provides an intimate setting with the highest confidentiality for those in safety-sensitive positions within the healthcare field. The program's continuum of care includes a four-day residential assessment program, residential treatment, Caron’s Partial Hospitalization Program, and sober living, with each step and its length of stay determined by Caron’s clinical team. In making recommendations for each treatment stage, the clinical team complies with the requirements of state monitoring/licensing boards.
Treatment Program Details
Caron’s Healthcare Professionals Program provides dedicated, specialized treatment that addresses the unique challenges of substance use disorders for licensed healthcare professionals. The program is led by physicians board-certified in addiction medicine, psychiatry, internal medicine, critical care medicine, and anesthesiology. Licensed doctoral-level psychologists and psychiatrists provide services as clinically indicated. Master’s level clinicians provide counseling, education, and guidance.
Group and individual counseling focus on relapse prevention, coping skills, appropriate disclosure, and stress reduction. In addition to individual and group counseling, the Healthcare Professionals Program includes specialty groups that address licensure and work issues, integration back into professional practice, and challenges specific to healthcare professionals.
As patients progress through levels of care, they can attend outside meetings and engage in other activities that prepare them to appropriately balance their recovery with their professional obligations.
Assessment/Intake
- Detox services, if needed, in a state-of-the-art medical center staffed by full-time, experienced medical professionals
- A psychosocial assessment that includes an evaluation of addiction and mental health symptoms
- Comprehensive toxicology screenings as clinically indicated
- A personalized treatment plan including treatment of co-occurring disorders
Treatment and Therapies
- Individual counseling
- Evidence-based modalities such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), EMDR, and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
- Specialty groups specific to healthcare professionals focusing on challenges such as returning to work, licensure, and other topics as needed
- A Caduceus Group to deal with professional persona, ease of access to drugs, and the impact addiction has on medical practice and patient care
Family Support
- A family program with education on substance use and mental health disorders, recovery programs, and relapse, and guidance on healthy coping skills, effective boundaries, communication, and self-care
- Age-specific education and counseling for children ages 7-11 and 12-15 through the Youth Education Program
Post-treatment Support
- A personalized continuing care plan to support patients in sustaining long-term recovery that may include professional monitoring programs when appropriate and with patient consent
- Alumni support activities
- Recovery support services for intensive, short-term recovery and reintegration guidance and assistance, including virtual early recovery support groups (Requires an additional cost)
- My Recovery Connection (Requires an additional cost)
- Breakthrough at Caron (Requires an additional cost)
- Caron's outpatient treatment centers and regional recovery center for treatment and recovery support services
Who We Treat
This program treats professionals actively working in the healthcare field, including:
- MDs and DOs
- Nurse practitioners and physician assistants
- Nurses (RNs, CRNAs, and LPNs)
- Dentists
- Pharmacists
- Veterinarians
- Licensed counselors, social workers, and psychologists
- Licensed medical and behavioral health professionals who could potentially be sanctioned by a state board and/or be eligible for professional monitoring
- Medical, nursing, and behavioral health students who provide direct patient care in their training
Patient-centered Treatment
A Continuum of Care Specific to Patient Needs
- Detox services as needed
- A thorough assessment to evaluate addiction and mental health symptoms
- Healthcare professionals-specific programming in residential treatment and extended treatment with Caron’s Partial Hospitalization Program and sober living
- Individualized level of care and length-of-stay recommendations as determined by Caron’s clinical team
- Corresponding and serving as a liaison with state licensing boards and professional monitoring programs
- Chronic pain treatment that includes medication management, pain management education, holistic therapies, and specialized treatments
- LGBTQIA+ affirming and accepting services
Included as Clinically Needed
- In-depth psychological assessments
- Evidence-based individual and group trauma treatment
- Spiritual groups with individual spiritual counseling
- Medication-assisted treatment
Health and Wellness Services
- Yoga
- State-of-the-art fitness center
- Nutrition counseling as medically indicated
Experienced clinical and medical professionals lead and staff the program.
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