The ECMC Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for adults offers intensive outpatient treatment interventions to individuals experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms that impair their daily functioning at home, school, and/or work.
Our Partial Hospitalization Program is designed to stabilize acute symptoms with the goals of avoiding a psychiatric inpatient hospitalization and/or reducing the length of a potential hospital stay should it be necessary.
This program is an exceptional resource for outside community providers with patients who are displaying an increase in symptoms of mental health conditions but do not require hospitalization.
This program is a great next step for patients who have been discharged from inpatient care but may still need continued structure and additional coping skills prior to returning to their outpatient provider.
Program Structure
The Partial Hospitalization Program offers six hours of treatment each day from Monday – Friday (lunch provided). Treatment is provided by a team of qualified professionals, including clinical-licensed mental health practitioners.
The program includes:
- Individual and group therapy
- Cognitive behavioral treatment
- Dialectical behavioral treatment
- Psychoeducation
- Medication stabilization
- Family involvement
- Support and advocacy
Each patient is assigned a primary therapist who, together with the treatment team, coordinates their individualized treatment plan. The program invites family and/or significant others to participate in their loved one’s treatment by offering sessions to discuss treatment, support, and community resources.
The program encourages and offers a weekly family group that provides psychoeducation to patients’ family members and/or loved ones regarding the program, the skills their loved ones have learned, and how they can support them upon completion of the program.
Admission Requirements
Individuals must:
- Be 18 years of age or older
- Have a primary psychiatric diagnosis
- Exhibit psychiatric symptoms that do not require hospitalization but have a profound impact on their daily living and functioning
- Are willing and able to sign a contract to ensure their safety
- Live in an environment suitable for personal safety
- Have failed to make significant clinical gains within a traditional outpatient setting
- Are in need of additional skills to function in an outpatient setting
- Are ready for inpatient discharge but are assessed to be in need of daily monitoring and support, as well as ongoing intensive therapeutic intervention
- Experience symptoms that would continue increasing without an intensive outpatient program
Exclusion Criteria
Individuals who:
- Have a primary diagnosis of substance-use disorder with active use of substances
- Lack commitment and/or desire to participate in PHP
Program Expectations
- Respect the rules and confidentiality of others in the program
- Remain abstinent of all substances while attending the program
- Refrain from any harm to self or others
- Refrain from sexual or romantic relationships with other program members
- Be on time, attend regularly, and contact the program if unable to attend on a particular day (only one absence allowed)
