It is not uncommon for those with severe and persistent mental illness to occasionally experience an increase in symptoms that requires intensive treatment or hospitalization. At Birch Tree Communities, we are committed to facilitate a return to independent living and to prevent institutionalization or dependence, so our staff takes extensive measures to prevent inpatient hospitalization when symptom acuity or significant regression occurs.

Hope House provides a safe, secure, and highly-supervised setting that facilitates a reduction in psychiatric symptoms. The building was designed with vaulted ceilings and large windows for natural light to create a comfortable environment for members to receive the greatest care when it’s needed most. Hope House provides services such as, but not limited to:

• Enhanced support for members experiencing increased symptoms or deficits in functioning
• Crisis stabilization and prevention of hospitalization
• Medication maintenance and supervision of medications
• Increased staff-to-member ratio
• Specialized staffing and treatment planning services
• Individual and group therapies
• Acute rehabilitative day treatment
• Daily psychosocial rehabilitative program activities

Extra support services, supervision, and structure enables members in crisis to experience stabilization, a return to baseline functioning, and a return to their home environment. While at Hope House, treatment targets those symptoms that are the most acute, those that interfere with baseline performance or recovery, and those that place the member or others at risk. When necessary, Hope House also provides screening and assessment for hospitalization.