Vista Taos Renewal Center

Vista Taos Renewal Center Taos New Mexico

Located in beautiful Northern New Mexico, Vista Taos Renewal Center is a residential treatment center for adult men and women struggling with chemical dependency and the co-occurring disorders that often accompany addiction. Our balanced, integrated approach and intimate setting allow us to provide a level of personalized care essential for long-term recovery and sobriety. Addiction is a multifaceted disease afflicting the whole person. Our model balances each client’s medical, psychiatric and therapeutic needs with their personal journey of recovery. At Vista Taos Renewal Center, our residential treatment program is tailored to the individual needs of each client. We offer a beautiful southwestern setting at the base of Taos Mountain. Each quiet and comfortable semi-private room has their own bathroom and private patio area with expansive views of the surrounding mountains. Our accommodations, combined with the daily guidance and support of our staff, inspire clients to begin the journey toward recovery and renewal. Each patient is given a thorough evaluation and is provided with an individualized treatment plan. Our highly trained and experienced clinical team and full time medical director/addiction psychiatrist provide a level of care that is unmatched. Services available to each patient include: Medical and Psychiatric directed Detoxification and Assessment, Individual and Group Therapy, included Family program, 12 Step introduction and support, Outside Experiential Therapies including Trauma, Grief, and Loss, Psychodrama, Yoga, Native elements experience, and Relapse Prevention.

ABOUT VISTA TAOS RENEWAL CENTER IN TAOS, NM

Vista Taos, located in Taos, N.M., offers residential and detoxification treatment to adult men and women struggling with addiction and dual diagnosis. The facility is family-owned and has been in business for over 20 years. Vista Taos also operates a separate, long-term care facility called Casa Feliz.

TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT

To be admitted, clients begin by calling Vista Taos for a free, confidential phone consultation. Most client stay in residential treatment for an average of four to six weeks. Extended care at the facility’s other location, Casa Feliz, can last from 60 days to 12 months.

The facility’s residential treatment program follows the 12-Step method of recovery. Throughout treatment, clients receive individual therapy once a week and group therapy three to four times a week. Clients also benefit from relapse prevention education, Trauma Informed Care, grief and loss therapy, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention.

Vista Taos offers medically-supervised detoxification with medical staff on call 24/7. The facility also provides unique treatments and therapy including yoga, massage, acupuncture, equine assisted learning, spiritual guidance, and outdoor activities. Families may participate in treatment through a family seminar that occurs every other week.
After completing primary treatment, clients may choose to enter extended care, which is designed to “re-engage their interests and passions in a safe, sober environment.”

Extended care includes program components that are similar to those found in primary treatment, plus work, volunteer, and educational opportunities.

STAFF CREDENTIALS

The treatment team at Vista Taos includes a medical doctor, registered nurse, Ph.D. and master’s-level clinicians, two chefs, a massage therapist, and a yoga instructor.

ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES

Vista Taos offers 18 beds for adult clients in a Southwestern retreat-like setting. The facility’s shared bedrooms each have a private bathroom and patio. Vista Taos boasts views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and home-made meals are prepared daily by two full-time chefs.

WHAT ALUMNI SAY

Vista Taos has received four alumni user reviews, most of which were positive, awarding high four and five-star ratings for the metrics of treatment effectiveness, accommodations and amenities, and meals and nutrition. However, Best-rehabs.com still have yet to receive a survey response from a facility alum.

However, on the facility’s Google page, Vista Taos has an average rating of 4.2 out of five stars based upon five reviews.[1] In their commentary, alumni spoke of a “life changing experience,” with many claiming to be doing well and staying sober several years after finishing treatment.

WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY

At time of writing, the two loved ones polled by Best-rehabs.com gave generally positive reviews. Both reviewers said they would recommend Vista Taos to a friend or family member considering treatment.

Both anonymous loved ones said they believed treatment was affordable or offered at a fair price. They gave the facility perfect five-star ratings for cleanliness and for exercise options. Additionally, they found the staff’s level of training and experience to be high, and offers specifici praise to the counselors. “Awesome staff: counselors, cooks, RAs, grounds keepers,” one loved one wrote. The other added additional commentary, “Vista Taos works with each patient individually as well as as with the family as a whole.”

FINANCING

There is currently no information provided by Vista Taos regarding its costs. However, the facility accepts insurance including Blue Cross Blue Shield and Presbyterian Insurance. Vista Taos does not accept Medicare, Medicaid, Centennial Care, or Molina Healthcare.

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Vista Taos Renewal Center Reviews

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  • Love this place! Life changing!
    Vista Taos was an incredible experience for me. The staff was very professional and my counselor was the bomb!! The family program was also awesome! The counselors helped me resolve problems with my family that we had struggled with for YEARS!! I can't say enough good things about my experience at Vista. I am a totally new person because of my sobriety and I could NOT have done it without Vista. I know because I had tried, and TRIED to get sober on my own. SO grateful for my sobriety and SO, SO grateful for Vista Taos!!! Oh, and the food was super delicious! .
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  • Place stinks. You have to pay for the treatment by the 3rd week. After that they want you to leave so someone else can have ur bed. No 21 day or 30 day stay here. Of all the individuals that were there while I was, relapsed, Me included. I kept in touch with most every one. so I know. Go here and you will be spitting against the wind. Just send your money to me instead! By the way, by keeping in touch with all the people there are only 2 of us who are now together and for several years. We helped each other which is a great thing. Love her and she's my rock. Understand Vista Taos did nothing for either one of us. And we were 2 of the people kicked out to open beds and pull in income for two poor soles begging for help!
    I have worked in the addiction treatment field first as a counselor, now 20+ years as an addiction psychiatrist. I have experience with a large number of treatment facilities and I have learned that no matter how good a program is, it absolutely depends on the quality of the staff. Unfortunately, this field has a way of attracting less than quality providers. Your comment suggests that your experience at Vista dates back several years. I was asked to become Medical Director to assist in making Vista Taos a premier facility for healing both patients and families struggling with alcoholism and related drug addictions. This can only occur when everyone employed shares a similar dedication to caring for those that come to us. Our Executive Director, Clinical Director, Spiritual Leader, Nursing Manager, from intake, house keeping to dietary - they are all united in providing quality, ethical healing in one of the most beautiful environments I have ever seen. What you experienced is common in some treatment programs but I came to Vista 18 months ago with the understanding that it would not happen here. The staff at Vista Taos has changed a great deal over the past several years and now is without doubt among the best I have ever worked with. We just celebrated our first annual Gratitude Gathering for Alumni and I was overwhelmed with the outpouring of emotion from attendees and staff for what Vista Taos has become. This is a special place and I am grateful to be a part of it.
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  • Awesome staff: counselors, cooks, RAs, grounds keepers. It was an amazing place to turn your life around!
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  • Vista Taos works with each patient individually as well as as with the family as a whole.
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  • It saved my life and I am forever grateful.