Hutchings Psychiatric Center

620 Madison St
Syracuse, NY 13210

Hutchings Psychiatric Center - Outpatient NY 13210

About Hutchings Psychiatric Center

Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse, New York, is one of 24 state run psychiatric facilities that operates in collaboration with the local mental health system. The center is about five hours from Toronto, New York City, Boston, and Montreal. They provide addiction services and psychiatric care to adults and psychiatric care for children and adolescents.

The addiction medicine service provides short term treatment to address drug and alcohol addiction and other substance use disorders. They are equipped to treat co-occurring mental health conditions, called dual diagnosis. Treatment for dual diagnosis is specialized and requires integrated care provided simultaneously for addiction and mental health conditions.

Your customized treatment program may include an outpatient detox program to provide support with withdrawal symptoms and monitor your progress. Programs also include psychotherapy and medication assisted treatment (MAT) with referrals to other providers in the local area. You receive detoxification services and addiction treatment at the same office. Their program completion rate is over 80%, and more than 50% are still sober one month after the treatment has ended.

To be accepted into their program for treatment, you must be capable of scheduling your own appointment, and you must bring a support person with you to your first appointment. Because the addiction medicine program is part of a teaching hospital, your appointment is usually scheduled with the attending physician and other interns or residents. They accept most major insurance providers and will check your insurance information before starting treatment. If you arrive for your first appointment without a support person, you will be denied care.

Latest Reviews

Michele Maramarco
4 weeks ago on Google
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Had very bad experience there it is a locked facility and a lot of people have preconceived ideas of what those facilities are and when you have doctors that won't attend or listen that you have allergies and prescribed the same medicine day after day something should be done they are rotten disgusting selfish self-centered people that run that place
Mariah Wellcome
11 months ago on Google
1
Medical neglect- she died of severe constipation and bowel obstruction. the girl was 14
Tashee Browm
1 year ago on Google
1
Horrible this place needs to be shut down.

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Accepted Insurance

Hutchings Psychiatric Center works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, Please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

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Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Financial aid can take many forms. Centers may have grants or scholarships available to clients who meet eligibility requirements. Programs that receive SAMHSA grants may have financial aid available for those who need treatment as well. Grants and scholarships can help you pai for treatment without having to repay.

Sliding scale payments are based on a client's income and family size. The goal is to make treatment affordable to everyone. By taking these factors into account, addiction recovery care providers help ensure that your treatment does not become a financial burden to you or your family, eliminating one barrier to care.

Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance for those 65 and older. It also serves people under 65 with chronic and disabling health challenges. To use Medicare for addiction treatment you need to find a program that accepts Medicare and is in network with your plan. Out of pocket costs and preauthorization requirements vary, so always check with your provider.

Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.

Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

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Inpatient rehabs provide a space for clients to focus exclusively on their recovery while receiving intensive supervision and support. Inpatient treatment centers provide housing and food and most offer round-the-clock clinical care. Their primary treatment modalities typically consist of addiction counseling using various psychotherapeutic methods, including CBT, DBT, RBT, and motivational interviewing. Many rehabs also provide specialized services for clients with co-occurring addiction and mental illness. Recovery-focused life skills training and holistic therapies are other common services.
24-hour icon24-Hour Clinical Care
For many different stages and therapies offered during addiction treatment, it's essential to offer 24-hour clinical care in New York. often involves medication treatment for drug or alcohol detox. The withdrawal symptoms experienced during detox can be dangerous, but having medical experts on-site around the clock means someone is always there to step in and provide emergency medical care when and if it is ever needed.

Treatments

Many of those suffering from addiction also suffer from mental or emotional illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or anxiety disorders. Rehab and other substance abuse facilities treating those with a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder administer psychiatric treatment to address the person's mental health issue in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.

Programs

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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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Adult Program
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
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Program For Men
Men face specific challenges and concerns when seeking addiction treatment. Gender-specific recovery programs help them tackle these issues head-on in an environment that's focused, targeted, and distraction-free. It also gives them the opportunity to connect with and learn from other men who have been through a similar journey and can offer support for the next step.
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Program For Women
Rehabs for women provide a safe, nurturing space for female clients to heal. These treatment programs consider the specific obstacles that women can face during recovery and place a special emphasis on mental, social, physical, and reproductive health. They explore how each woman's experience has shaped the trajectory of their substance use, addressing issues such as sexual abuse and past trauma.
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Young Adult Program
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.
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Child Program
The providers who specialize in the children's rehab space understand the specialized needs that this population faces. School-based and social services such as tutoring and family counseling are often central to treatment. Child programs may also address the needs of youth experiencing substance abuse in the home, including a parent's or sibling's addiction.
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Hearing Impaired Program
A sensory disability, such as hearing impairment, can compound the challenges of addiction recovery. Drug rehabs that are specially designed to accommodate the needs of persons with hearing impairments will include special accessibility features and accommodations to make treatment as comfortable and effective as possible. This may include access to American Sign Language interpreters.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.

Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.

Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.

Nicotine is an addictive substance found in cigarettes. When you stop smoking, your body experiences withdrawal from this substance. Nicotine replacement therapy lets you slowly reduce your nicotine intake so you experience minimal withdrawal symptoms. Eventually you'll be down to zero.

Amenities

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Accreditations

The Joint Commission, formerly known as JCAHO, is a nonprofit organization that accredits rehab organizations and programs. Founded in 1951, the Joint Commision's mission is to improve the quality of patient care and demonstrating the quality of patient care.

Joint Commission Accreditation: Yes

Contact Information

Phone icon (315) 426-3600
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620 Madison St
Syracuse, NY 13210

Fact checked and written by:
Gayle Morris, BSN, MSN
Edited by:
Kerry Nenn, BSW

Reviews of Hutchings Psychiatric Center

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2.1 (23 reviews)
Michele Maramarco
4 weeks ago
1

Had very bad experience there it is a locked facility and a lot of people have preconceived ideas of what those facilities are and when you have doctors that won't attend or listen that you have allergies and prescribed the same medicine day after day something should be done they are rotten disgusting selfish self-centered people that run that place

Mariah Wellcome
11 months ago
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Medical neglect- she died of severe constipation and bowel obstruction. the girl was 14

Tashee Browm
1 year ago
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Horrible this place needs to be shut down.

Daniel Colon
1 year ago
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Been going here 4 years now.

jennie Martin
1 year ago
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Separate people from their loved ones while they are hospitalized there? They run this place like a prison, maximum security. so dehumanizing

Cassandra Moyer
2 years ago
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Megan Wilbur
2 years ago
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They like to overdose their patients!

Sarah Savastano
2 years ago
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Stop allowing patients with severe schizophrenia to have virtual appointments.This is becoming neglect at this point and allowing those with this severe condition to go years without an in person exam to be able to see what actually state they are in is criminal. We have watched our brother get so much worse in the last two years and we have no idea what to do to help as this place has stopped caring. We are so scared from the obviously Ill behavior that my brother has displayed for years at this point (pandemic meant he was able to get away with not being seen regularly or at all). We have no resources to get him help and this place is supposed to be treating him but he has gotten so so much worse in the few two years it is scary. Something needs to be done and with cases like his (that was really scary thb) he needs to be physically seen and resources (like who to contact) need to given to the families for when things get obviously bad. Please step it up and help him!! They are really just leaving those who come here for help behind during this pandemic.

Phoenix Relihan
2 years ago
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Daniel Caedmon
3 years ago
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The first time I went here was for being suicidal. This place helped me honor my life. I was treated like a human being and the staff were very nice. Second time I came here was for being a violent person. It was a better alternative than jail. It was my "scared straight" program. About a year later I was a much, much, much better person. Thank you for helping me straighten my life out! Only negatives I give this place is it has increased my paranoia of going back every year in October. I also had a HUGE fear of the police from 2016-2020.

James Mickey
3 years ago
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As someone who use to be a patient there, I am very disappointed by their service. In the hospital you ll mostly talk to therapeutic assistances which have little medical training. These people are not helpful in any way and could ruin treatment. Many times I see the TAs making fun of the patients, including jokes about suicide and depression. Unlike other psychiatric centers you will barely see a psychiatrist, I have gone months without seeing one. The psychologists tend to be unfit for analysis, and have little compantance themselves. Medical nurses are very unprofessional, and consistanly give a misdiagnosis. One misdiagnosis led to the death of a 13 year old girl, whom I knew while inpatient. Sometimes I was abused inpatient when refused food, because the medication I was taking made me too tired to wake up on time. Nothing could be done about this since I only see my psychiatrist once a month. Overall after being inpatient for 6 months, I feel mistreated and worthless. I was inpatient for a suicide attempt, in which I recieved very little treatment. If you have a family member or loved one with depression, please send them to a better hospital. Hutchings does not offer the therapy needed to rehabilitate anyone who suffers from mental illness. Sadly Hutchings is an awful place that does more harm than good.

Alana VanAllen
3 years ago
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I left here more suicidal and terrified than when I entered. The staff was rude and made fun if us. The psychiatrist made me pretend I believed in God or else he thought I wasn't mentally stable. Once I started agreeing with his religious statements he said he thought I was doing better. The boys and girls always were doing inappropriate things to each other and the staff didn't care. When one of the patients got upset and was threatening to throw something (mind you both staff and other patients were making fun of her often and she was not aggressive until about a week or two into her stay because of their actions) the staff ran behind the other patients and left them exposed to be attacked. They also changed my medicine after I explicitly said I didn't want to.

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