ABOUT PRESTERA CENTER – LOGAN COUNTY CRISIS CENTER IN LOGAN, WV
Prestera Center, located in Logan, W.Va., offers residential psychiatric stabilization and detoxification to adults experiencing an acute mental health crisis. According to the facility’s website, Prestera is the largest behavioral health services provider in West Virginia. The organization serves Boone, Cabell, Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Putnam, and Wayne counties and operates 55 locations. The organization provides a wide range of additional mental health and substance abuse services at its other locations.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
The Prestera Center’s Logan Crisis Residential Unit offers a voluntary and intensive program meant to prevent psychiatric hospitalization. The facility also functions as a step-down from more intensive services or a psychiatric hospital setting. Admissions are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the organization’s on-call emergency services.
Throughout treatment, clients receive daily psychiatric medication reviews, individual and group therapy, education about mental illness, treatment planning, and ongoing evaluation, case management, and treatment planning services. Medication to detoxify residents from alcohol or opioids and opiates may be provided when necessary.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
There is currently no information provided by Prestera Center regarding its treatment staff. However, one alum surveyed by Best-rehabs.com said she strongly agreed that facility staff are experienced and well-trained.
ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES
The Prestera Center’s Logan Crisis Residential Unit offers six to eight beds for adults. There is currently no further information provided by the facility regarding its living arrangements and related offerings. However, one alum polled by Best-rehabs.com gave the facility a three out of five star rating for accommodations and amenities, four stars for meals and nutrition, and four stars for cleanliness.
REVIEWS
At the time of this writing, there has been one alum polled by Best-rehabs.com. The reviewer gave Prestera Center good reviews and expressed that the facility helped her. She disagreed that there are many counseling options to choose from, but strongly agreed that the facility is adequately equipped and staffed to treat co-occurring mental health problems, and that facility staff are experienced and well-trained.
She felt that strengths of the facility were its small size and that they used the correct combination of medicine for her. When asked about weaknesses, she said there were not enough adult activities and Prestera Center was “very lax with therapy.” She also added the following commentary: “In all my experience was good. I have remained clean since my time spent there. I feel the staff was caring and a huge part of saving my life.”
At the time of this writing, there were no third party reviews available for Prestera Center.
FINANCING
There is currently no information provided by Prestera Center regarding its costs. However, according to the facility website, Prestera Center offers treatment to everyone who needs it regardless of their ability to pay. Clients are encouraged to contact the facility directly for additional information regarding the cost of treatment.