North Country Recovery Center Weeks Medical Center

North Country Recovery Center Weeks Medical Center

Services:
Ancillary Services
• Integrated primary care services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Case management service

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment
• Substance use treatment

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Private non-profit organization

Treatment Approaches

• Individual psychotherapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Couples/family therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Private health insurance
• Medicare
• Other State funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicaid

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Young adults
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Members of military families
• Seniors or older adults
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Veterans
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Loxapine
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Chlorpromazine
• Clozapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Risperidone