Hope Center inpatient treatment facility set to open soon in Jasper
LifeSpring Health Systems will soon open the Hope Center, its inpatient substance abuse treatment facility, in Jasper.
Featuring 24 beds, the 10,000-square-foot facility is designed to provide comprehensive care to those suffering from substance use disorders. When it opens at the end of March or early April, residents will have access to psychiatric care as well as medical care while they are living in the facility and receiving support through licensed, certified addiction counselors, social workers, and peer support specialists.
The Hope Center at 480 Eversman Drive will feature two-person rooms with 12 beds for men and 12 for women–transgender patients will have private single-bed rooms–with access to a common room, kitchen and education area for group meetings. The residents will also have access to an outdoor recreation area as well as private rooms for family visits.
The building requires permitted entry, but residents are there voluntarily and can leave on their own recognizance, through reentry into the program would require undergoing the application process again.
Each applicant completes a screening process to help determine the course of their care when they enter Hope Center. These treatment plans are not restricted to timelimits (i.e. a 28-day, 14-day, 90-day programs) but rather, the patients undergo reassessments every seven days to help determine their individual needs. These assessments will also help determine when a patient is ready to transfer out of the Hope Center whether that is to a supportive home network or one of the recovery homes–Dove Recovery House for Women or the Next Step Recovery Home for men.
“I worked in an agency in Evansville and it really was based on a certain amount of days that you typically were in the center,” said Becky Michael, a licensed clinical social worker at Hope Center. “Sometimes that can be too little treatment for somebody. They may need a lot longer to stabilize, especially if they have dual diagnosis going on. But it also could be too much, somebody may only need a week. So it’s really trying to keep that assessment process going to make sure that we’re really getting them the help they need.”
There will be medical support on call for certain types of detoxification or withdrawal however, individuals going through alcohol or barbituate withdrawal will need to be referred to a hospital. Though physicians wil not be staffed at the facility, they will be available on-call, and the facility will be staffed with nurses 24 hours a day.
“Our overall goal is to create this whole recovery campus,” said Dr. Brett Hurm.
A clinical psychologist, Dr. Hurm is the clinical manager for Hope Center.
He explained that the goal of the Hope Center and LifeSpring campus is to take a holistic approach that meets the mental, emotional and physical health needs of their patients from both an inpatient and outpatient perspective.
“And along the way, establish community support and resources that the individual may need as well,” he added.
For those involved in substance abuse treatment and mitigation, the facility will fill another gap in care for Dubois County residents. By bringing a facility like this to the area, officials hope to expand treatment options for those individuals that may be reserved about having to enter treatment outside the area. Being seperated from their families can be a deterent for those seeking help.
Most next-stage inpatient facilities are outside of Dubois County, which means motivating someone to seek help knowing they will leave their community and family for 14 to 20 days can be a stumbling block. Having access to what LifeSpring will provide in Jasper will make that transition easier for those individuals needing sub-acute mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Adding the inpatient treatment facility in Jasper is part of a coelesced effort from the Dubois County Community Foundation, community members, organizations and businesses to address substance use and mental health in Dubois County. Invigorated by a $4.4 million through the Lilly Endowment’s Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow program, the funds have helped to establish the two recovery homes as well as Hope Center with a $1.6 million grant.
LifeSpring is still filling positions at Hope Center and anyone seeking employment can reach out to the organization or see available positions on its website, Lifespringhealthsystems.org/careers.
