Overview
Employees
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Lafayette, Louisiana
Category
Individual & Family Services
Vermilion Behavioral Health Systems is an inpatient treatment hospital in Lafayette, LA for individuals suffering from depression, addiction, trauma, and other mental health disorders. Acadia Vermilion Hospital is a 54 bed private psychiatric facility located in Lafayette, Louisiana. The hospital continuum provides high quality, cost-effective, acute, sub-acute inpatient psychiatric and chemical dependency services for adolescents 12 to 17 years and adults 18 years and older and their families. The hospital provides high quality professional and clinical services dedicated to the care and recovery of patients served. To best achieve this, the hospital provides a continuum of care which encompasses inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient services for Adults and inpatient services for adolescents. The goal of the therapeutic milieu is the patient's ultimate ability to identify, accept, and mediate problems in functioning. Through individual, group, and family therapies, patients are encouraged to examine problems, establish realistic treatment goals, and enact change. Emphasizing the importance of continued treatment after discharge, staff members actively involve patients in the development of aftercare plans, and transition patients to a lower level of care in the continuum as indicated by evidence of progress toward treatment goals. Community integration and post-discharge functioning are monitored through the Performance Improvement Program. This allows the facility input into the efficacy of care it provides. Emergency care / assessments and referrals are available 24 hours a day / 7 days a week through the Admissions / Assessment and Referral Department.
