ABOUT KAISER PERMANENTE — SOUTH SACRAMENTO MEDICAL CENTER
One of more than 600 Kaiser Permanente medical facilities around the country, the South Sacramento Medical Center is a walk in clinic with a behavioral health department that offers outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents who are struggling with substance abuse. The facility is located off Route 99, nine miles south of Midtown Sacramento. Detoxification is available on an outpatient basis.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
No appointment is needed for adults, but adolescents should make an appointment before coming to the facility. Though the center’s website does not confirm this, Best-rehabs.com reviews indicated that Suboxone programming was available at this facility.
Care is offered mainly in structured support group settings, though individual therapy, family counseling, and education are also available. Clients are expected to attend outside self-help meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA).
An intensive outpatient program (IOP) is available. Treatment lasts 21 days and consists of group sessions, psychoeducational classes, and individual therapy sessions. Clients are not allowed to work while enrolled in the program.
Adolescent programs include teen recovery groups and teen-specific 12-step meetings, as well as family education classes and parent support groups.
The facility also offers support for clients’ loved ones, including free Al-Anon meetings.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
The treatment team includes licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs), addiction medicine physicians, internists, psychiatrists, psychologists, certified alcohol and drug counselors (CADC), nurses, and marriage and family therapists. The four individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com to date on the staff’s level of training and experience gave it a four out of five star average rating.
WHAT ALUMNI SAY
Of the five alumni polled by Best-rehabs.com to date, three would recommend the center, one remained neutral on this question, and one would not recommend the center.
The four reviewers polled on the facility’s offerings in a variety of treatment metrics gave it average ratings of 3.5 out of five stars for its family programming, three stars for its counseling options, and 2.5 stars for its holistic treatment offerings.
Three of the five reviewers questioned the center’s efficacy in keeping clients clean and sober, with one reporting that they had relapsed. Another wrote that “The ‘surprise’ urine tests not frequent enough, could possibly use,” and Alex adding: “Dont really help u that much mostly like a school and class room.” Alex also cited a shortage of counselors and some rudeness from staff, and Jordan wrote: “They do not offer a wide variety of services.”
Others praised the program and the counselors; however, they gave the facility an average of three out of five stars for the available counseling options.
On Google, the whole facility earned 3.3 out of five stars from 91 reviews to date.
WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY
The single loved one polled by Best-rehabs.com to date gave mixed feedback, indicating that they would recommend the facility, but giving it just three out of five stars for the overall quality of its addiction treatment as well as the level of support received from its staff.
The center’s mental health treatment fared better, with four out of five stars given. “AV used for education, including videos of addicted teens re-enacting real-life situations of other addicted teens that were arrested, crippled &/or killed by DUI accidents, overdoses, or consequences of long-time drug use,” the anonymous reviewer wrote in describing the center’s program.
FINANCING
As a Kaiser Permanente facility, this center is in-network with Kaiser Permanente, and accepts Medicaid and MediCal. The four individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com to date on the center’s affordability gave it an average rating of 3.75 out of five stars.