ABOUT PEAK BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES
Peak Behavioral Health is a behavioral health hospital located directly on the border between New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico, in the northwestern outskirts of El Paso. The hospital offers medical detox and a variety of inpatient and outpatient services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors struggling with various mental and behavioral health disorders, including problematic substance use.
The hospital offers dedicated treatment services for veterans and active service members.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
Treatment begins with a free assessment.
Acute-care inpatient services are provided for individuals of all ages who require immediate stabilization. During their brief stay at the hospital, individuals receiving acute care will receive participate in individual, group, and family therapy, recreational therapy, and discharge planning, which begins on the day of intake. Where necessary, acute-care clients also receive medication management and education services, and detoxing individuals also participate in relapse-prevention sessions.
The center also offers less intensive residential services for adolescent boys and girls aged 12 to 17 who are struggling with emotional and/or behavioral issues, including substance use disorder, that exhibit themselves frequently and disruptively. The program is trauma-informed, and uses modalities including gender-specific programming, substance use education, and psychoeducation. Residents also participate in schooling.
There are partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) for both adults and adolescents, which use similar treatment modalities to residential treatment, at staggered intensities. The adolescent IOP allows clients to keep attending school during treatment.
Upon discharge, all clients are matched with a mental-health provider in their community, with whom they meet for a follow-up appointment.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
Staff includes psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and licensed therapists. Both of the individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com to date gave Peak Behavioral Health perfect five-star ratings for its staff’s level of training and experience.
ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES
The hospital has 119 beds, as well as a licensed school for adolescent residents, a gym, and outdoor courtyards. Both of the individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com to date gave Peak Behavioral Health five-star ratings for its cleanliness, accommodations, and meals/nutrition. The center’s exercise and leisure offerings received a three-star rating and a five-star rating.
WHAT ALUMNI SAY
The single alum polled by Best-rehabs.com to date would strongly recommend Peak Behavioral Health. “Great staff,” they wrote, also praising their fellow patients and giving the facility four stars for its treatment effectiveness, family participation, and ability to treat co-occurring disorders, and two stars for its holistic offerings and counseling options. However, they added reservations about the hospital’s “specific policies on dealing with patients.”
Secondary sites yielded mostly negative feedback at the time of this writing: two one-star ratings on Yelp, and a 2.3-star average rating based on 39 reviews on Google.[1] [2] The reviewers repeatedly described unhelpful, unprofessional, and rude staff, and noted that they felt worse after treatment than before. “The staff, for the most part gave off an air of not wanting to be there and not wanting to help. While there were exceptions I often was made to feel that I was a bother to them,” S.D. wrote in a representative review on Google; “Worst place I’ve ever been I now had to visit a hospital because. Of there care,” J.Z. added on the same site.
However, a handful of former clients noted that they had received professional and helpful treatment at the facility. “I actually had a really good experience. I was having multiple behavioral health issues. The staff was courteous, knowledgeable, and helpful,” one reviewer wrote on Google under a pseudonym.
WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY
The single loved one polled by Best-rehabs.com to date would strongly recommend Peak Behavioral Health. “My loved one was cared for and treated with respect,” they wrote anonymously, despite adding concerns about overcrowding and understaffing. They gave the facility five stars for its treatment effectiveness, family participation, counseling options, and ability to treat co-occurring disorders, and one star for its holistic offerings.
FINANCING
Peak Behavioral Health accepts Medicare, Medicaid, TriCare, and most commercial insurances. The two individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com to date gave the facility a one-star rating and a three-star rating for its affordability.
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