MCES Crisis Residental Program

Norristown, Pennsylvania

1001stanbridge street
Building 45
Norristown, PA 19401

About MCES Crisis Residental Program

MCES Crisis Residental Program, located in Norristown, Pennsylvania is a private alcohol and drug rehab that offers treatment for a variety of substance abuse addictions including co-occurring mental health disorders. They offer residential care providing long term support for addiction recovery.

Specialty rehab programs at MCES Crisis Residental Program include tailored care focusing on women's specific needs and experiences, gender-specific addiction treatment addressing unique challenges faced by men, and specialized drug rehab for veterans, addressing combat-related trauma and reintegration.

Payment Options

Medicaid
Self-pay options

Levels of Care

Inpatient

Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

Programs

Adult program

Elderly program

Hearing impaired program

HIV/AIDS program

LGBTQ program

Military program

Program for men

Program for women

Young adult program

Treatment

Dual Diagnosis

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

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.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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.

Couples Therapy

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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.

Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and dysfunctional eating patterns. Many psychologists and other mental health professionals consider eating disorders to be food addictions, meaning food is being used in an addictive way (similar to drug or alcohol addiction). Certain substance abuse treatment programs will have treatment for eating disorders as one of the services offered. An eating disorder may also present as a co-occuring disorder or dual diagnosis alongside drug and alcohol addiction.

Experiential Therapy

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.

Family Therapy

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Group Therapy

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.

Individual Therapy

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.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is a way of getting nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking. It uses products that supply low doses of nicotine to help people stop smoking. The goal of therapy is to cut down on cravings for nicotine and ease the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.

Trauma Therapy

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.

Contact

(610) 631-2480

Website

1001stanbridge street
Building 45
Norristown, PA 19401

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Reviews

2.4 (100 reviews)

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clinton fishley

2 months ago

My daughter had to be put back in twice in 5 months. They take them in collect for the nonprofit then push them out like a turn style. This place needs to be investigated

Brian Pagano

As a mental health therapist and counselor I am appalled at the emptiness of help and compassion from staff. Nurses are never at their stations. Allied therapy does very little to teach and educate patients. Doctors hand out medication without proper assessments. All treatment is based on a 302 or 201 petition where crisis is at its highest. Stabilizing medication is not the same as maintenance medication. Empathy and compassion are lost here. Please reconsider emergency treatment. What is worse is if you call mobile crisis, your call goes to MCES. Think about it and make a critical decision on treatment that is actual treatment. I had the sense that money motivates and patients lose in the end. At a time when Mental Health crisis awareness is at its highest, this facility is at its lowest. I wonder when the last time a board of directors or any of the board members visited this facility and if they did how would they approve?

Bryn Spear

This is a truly disgusting facility that should be avoided at all costs if you are looking to get better. All they will offer here is grotesque incompetence and disgusting treatment that no human, especially those in crisis, deserve. When my loved one stayed here, they were told they could leave whenever they wanted as they were self-admitted by several nurses. They were then placed under a 302 hold due to putting in a request to leave and had less than an hour to take the request back. This was despite several nurses telling them they were a model patient doing everything right. And despite them participating in treatment as much as possible, socializing, taking their meds, and maintaining a polite, positive attitude, they were placed under a 304 hold. Both of which will be on their permanent record forever. The weird thing is everyone they knew their experienced something similar. While there, they witnessed nurses call other patients slurs and curse them out. They had an ant-infested room where they were bitten in their sleep. They were almost given another patient's medicine and forced to take vitals twice on more than one occasion because they mixed them up. They did not medicate him other than providing him sleep meds and vitamins. They did not even set him up with an actual therapist appointment when released, despite promising this. They also promised to provide him with a care plan within 72 hours of arrival. They barely even received one when they left. When I asked what I was allowed to bring him, I was told different things by the nurses, front desk people, and social worker. They then took over 9 hours to give him his belongings and he even lost the deodorant I was explicitly told he was allowed to have. Which, I suppose, could have been worse. When I went to the hospital to give them their things, I saw a patient whose car and house keys they had lost. That not even to mention the disgusting lack of care Dr Andre has for her patients. She consistently put words in their mouth yet barely bothered to speak to them at the same time. The only contact patients or loved ones are allowed through a crackling, muffled pay phone that you can barely understand anything on. The food is inedible. Altogether, this place is a glorified prison, and I have no clue how it is open. I wouldn't wish this place on my worst enemy. And that's only part of their experience here. This experience has been nothing other than traumatizing for everyone involved and only added to my loved one's mental health issues. All while doing little to nothing to provide care for them when they left, did nothing to diagnose them, and did next to nothing even to provide them with medication. This was despite Dr Andre deeming them as "severely mentally ill" enough to need not only a 302 hold but also a 304 hold. Whether this place is as disgusting as it is because of incompetence or maliciousness, I don't know. But if I were to guess, it's a healthy combination of both.

Gregory Kane

I was 302 by a mistake and was sent to MCES. This is a despicable and vile place. I've never seen a such a horrific place in my life. I was sent there because of a comment I made which was completely taken out of context and misinterpreted. Then I made critical comments that was conveniently omitted from the documentation. Once you are in a place like this its tough to get out. You're put in a room with two other people who should be in an insane asylum. The nursing station is just awful and completely uncooperative with the exception of maybe two nurses. They are rude, abrasive and not compassionate in the least. The techs who watch the floor are ignorant, vicious and just awful human beings. They don't care with the exception of a couple of them. The conditions of this place are vile, sickening and unimaginable. As a result of this horrific environment I went into AFib and almost died after one day of being in this awful place. Although, no one seemed to really care. It's filthy dirty and there's rodents, bugs and insects everywhere. The food is inedible. No wonder why they don't allow cell phones in there. The nurse practitioner that oversaw my case was delusional, ignorant, extremely vindictive and could care less what I said or presented to her. They even locked me in a room and put me in isolation for 7 days because they thought I had covid which wasn't the case. Even when I mentioned that I had no history of mental illness and that this was a terrible mistake the nurse practitioner vindictively kept me in there for 13 days. I will be suing this institution in the days ahead. They made my life a hell for 13 days. Just a despicable, vile, awful and a sickening place. The heinous way they treated me will be documented in my lawsuit. Stay away!!

Carol Geibe

6 months ago

I m so glad I read these reviews. They confirmed our instinctual response to the place. In the tiny foyer, a woman who looked like a police officer told my son s fiancer and myself, his mother, that we couldn t go in. We sat down outside on the wall.A few minutes later my son came out, furious! They were going to ruin his sweatpants which wouldn t hold up over his slim hips, as well as his hoodie, which also had a string. He is a bright, sensitive loving young man who is experiencing a deep depression with anxiety. This was before they had even spoken to him. No compassion, professionalism, kindness. Nothing.We left and will never go back.

Edward Bade

I would recommend mces for a friend or loved one who is experiencing a mental health issue, especially if that person is a danger to themselves or to others. There are channels to go through before you have them committed. Law enforcement and emergency personnel at the hospital are the beginning. Having the facts in detail of the situation and having all the details are a must. Be as exact as possible when explaining the situation. Don't change your story between what you say to the police and the hospital. Getting them the care from professionals who can handle it properly.

Vera Xhelilaj

SHUT THIS HOSPITAL DOWN!!!! Absolutely disgusting outside and I m nervous to even think about what happens to the patients within the facility. The front desk employees are nasty and rude and have no compassion for people with disabilities. This hospital needs to be under investigation there is definitely something terrible happening inside that none of us are aware of. Keep your loved ones away from this place

April McGuire

Kendra Montalvo

7 months ago

Where do I start! This whole organization is terrible. The HR department need to be investigated. BYANKA MEACHAM.( I hope I spelled the name right?) is a complete idiot. I ve tried multiple times to reach out and when I was actually able to, I was met with constant hostility and ghetto responses.If she is the representative or Human Resources then the whole organization may have pending litigation. Do not work for this company!!!!! Do not step foot here!!!They will threaten you and have their goons waiting for you outside your car if you don t comply with them. A complete dump.

Andrei Ibragimov

8 months ago

Before visiting the facility, I felt hopeful, even as I was dying. After all, maybe the world is going to be kind. After visiting the facility, I came out depressed, knowing that the services will actively make your life worse.

Elaine Miles

A horrible place.a former prison that when converted to a psych facility, had only received rudimental changes. The stubs of sawed off bars could still be seen at the floor level. The food was still the stuff of prisons. They probably never changed the supplier.While I was there, a former patient set fire to an employee s car. It could have been a true catastrophe. The goal may have been to blow it up along with this miserable place. Instead of diffusing anger and angst, the conditions were actually provoking people to act out.The accommodations were demoralizing. With the yellow cinderblock walls and narrow hallways, It resembled a subway station. Steel doors were constantly banging and reverberating throughout the place. Because it was not a clean environment flies were present. The cleaning lady didn t even move the trash can aside when she mopped the floors.I never was stabilized and didn t sleep most nights. The severe anxiety and agitation continued relentlessly. Instead of providing me with an ambien I was given melatonin, not very effective. I paced the ugly cold hallways and was distressed by yet another sleepless night.Not one mental health professional comprehended the full picture. They viewed one of my crucial medications, klonopin, as highly addictive and refused to prescribe it to anyone anymore.Xanax is another drug is this category known as benzodiazapines, or benzos. It s widely abused on the street. The physicians were now on a mission to keep others from going down this road of abuse and addiction. What they failed to understand was that I had never abused it. I ve always taken my medications as prescribed. That to go off of it abruptly leads to a life threatening withdrawal. I was in the land of the absurd. I d fallen down a rabbit hole and no one was reaching in to pull me out.Tapering my meds had put me into a state of withdrawal with suicidal tendencies. All I needed was to be put back on the therapeutic doses. These morons couldn't grasp that it was a very simple way for me to get well.When I was discharged, I was still unstable. My primary care doctor prescribed klonopin and I was fine in just a couple of days.This is a public health crisis. I had been to three different psychiatric facilties in a row. Even with my extensive medical history on record, not one of them correctly diagnosed me.If any one of my three suicide attempts were "successful" I'd be a statistic of depression suicides and not Benzodiazapene withdrawal due to malpractice.

Anne Cooper

Worst place in the world. Staff is inept.

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