Prestera Center

Prestera Center Huntington West Virginia

Prestera Center offers behavioral health care services, including addiction treatment, to individuals in need, regardless of their ability to pay. Our services include medically monitored detoxification, outpatient care, short- and long-term residential treatment, transitional housing programs, DUI treatment programs, public shelters for safe sobering up, and mental health care for co-occurring issues.

ABOUT PRESTERA CENTER

Established in 1967, Prestera Center is a nonprofit organization that provides addiction recovery, behavioral health, and co-occurring disorder services to adults, adolescents, and children from all socioeconomic backgrounds. We offer a full continuum of care across 55 facilities throughout West Virginia. Specifically, our Huntington location provides short- and long-term residential programs, outpatient services, transitional living programs, and medically monitored detoxification.

TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT

At Prestera Center, our residential programs are gender-specific and vary in intensity. Typically lasting three to six months, these programs involve psychiatric evaluation, psychiatric treatment/case management, individual therapy, group therapy, and family therapy. Our long-term “Renaissance” program provides support to women and their dependent children and can last from three months to one year or longer.

In our Huntington location, we have a Crisis Residential Unit (CRU) with six to eight beds for adult psychiatric stabilization and detoxification. Our medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program offers Suboxone to adults who are physically dependent on painkillers and other opiates/opioids for six to nine months. Additionally, we have the Pinecrest program, which provides housing to single adults with no active/current drug or alcohol use, subject to weekly testing.

Our outpatient services for adults include professional counseling, 12-step recovery coaching, structured groups, and relapse prevention. We also offer an intensive outpatient program (IOP) specifically for individuals struggling with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. For adolescents, we provide “family-centered, office-based therapy.”

Aside from our treatment programs, Prestera Center also offers community services such as a driving under the influence (DUI) treatment program, employment assistance, community engagement, and peer support specialist training.

STAFF CREDENTIALS

Prestera Center has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) since 2001. Our treatment team consists of psychiatrists, licensed psychologists, registered nurses/nurse practitioners, therapists, behavior rehabilitation specialists, and recovery coaches.

ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES

Although there is currently no information available regarding our facility’s living arrangements and amenities, previous clients have rated the accommodations and amenities an average of 3.6 out of five stars.

WHAT ALUMNI SAY

According to alumni reviews gathered by Best-rehabs.com, Prestera Center has received generally favorable feedback. Former clients commend the staff, giving an average rating of 4.1 out of five stars for their experience and level of training**. They describe the staff as caring, supportive, kind, and helpful. The facility’s cleanliness and affordability also received positive ratings, with averages of 4.4 and 4.3 stars respectively. Additionally, the majority of alumni said they would recommend the program to others.

Some criticism was directed towards the lack of exercise and leisure activities, which received an average rating of 3.2 out of five stars, and holistic offerings, which received an average rating of 2.7 out of five stars. Alumni expressed a desire for more one-on-one sessions and extracurricular activities such as exercise, meditation, and yoga.

However, many alumni also praised Prestera Center for giving them a chance to learn a new way of life and credited the program with saving their lives.

WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY

Friends and family members surveyed by Best-rehabs.com gave positive feedback about Prestera Center. They rated both the counseling options and the staff’s level of experience and training an average of 4.1 out of five stars. The facility received an average rating of four out of five stars for recommendation. Family participation and affordability were also considered positively, with average ratings of 3.6 and 3.9 stars respectively.

One anonymous reviewer highly recommended Prestera Center, stating that it had positively affected the lives of several people they knew. Another reviewer praised the facility for providing care, clean facilities, and helpful staff, but noted a lack of free time.

FINANCING

Prestera Center accepts major insurance providers, Medicare, and West Virginia Medicaid. However, we do not accept Kentucky or Ohio Medicaid. Self-pay patients are also welcome, and we ensure that care and services are available to everyone in need, regardless of their ability to pay.

Prestera Center Reviews

All about making money, don't care about anything but cash
This may actually be the worst mental health treatment system I have encountered as an educator, parent, and former advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities. Copays were paid on time, and four months later, even longer depending which part of the statement you read, we receive an astronomical bill. It made no sense and read as though we were beOmg charged for multiple visits on the same day. Interesting that statements can be re-written to reflect dates due to a Prestera error, but never amounts. My son has multiple diagnoses and the psychiatrist spent very little time observing and changed the diagnosis of the intake clinician who was very correct, to something else more reflective of a textbook trend. His staff then rescheduled all future appointments without calling us first. Suggestions for when meds are not a good fit were to admit my child to a psych ward bc the doctor would t be able to see him in a more timely fashion. We don’t have Medicaid and it’s a bummer we were treated so dismissively, but they’re going to want this bill paid in full as the services were some time ago. This is disgusting. Prestera as an organization takes advantage of and preys on people who participate appropriately in their poorly managed system.
I was not the patient but my loved one did not do well with treatment.
Very difficult and frustrating company to receive services from!
It was decent.