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Posted: Jul 10, 2014, 13:44
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER
New Perspectives
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Stockbridge, MA
Eric M. Plakun, MD
Director of Admissions
800-517-4447
info@austenriggs.net
www.austenriggs.net
The Austen Riggs Center is a non-profit psychiatric facility that provides both long-term residential and hospital-level psychiatric treatment, in addition to supervised and unsupervised apartment living. Founded in 1919 by Austen Fox Riggs, MD, Riggs has gained international recognition for helping emotionally troubled adults, age 18+, with a wide range of emotional difficulties and who have failed to benefit from previous treatment. It is located in the small town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on Norman Rockwell's Main Street and is now almost a century old.
Academic partners include Cambridge Health Alliance and Yale University School of Medicine. Jane Bloom, PhD, RN, CS, is the Director of Patient Services and oversees the Administrative, Nursing, and Activities Staff. Chauncey T. Collins, MBA is the Director of Operations and Finance. Bertha M. Connelley, PHR is the Director of Human Resources.
The Austen Riggs Center has been rated by the US News & World Report as the nation's tenth best Psychiatric Hospital. Riggs has a multi-disciplinary treatment teams consisting of a psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, social worker, nurse, community staff member and substance use disorder counselor. Each patient has individual psychotherapy four times a week with a doctor on staff and social workers conduct individual casework with each patient. Riggs also offers family consultation or therapy. The milieu includes a therapeutic community, groups, nursing services and an innovative Activities Program led by artists and craftsmen. The minimum length of stay is six weeks while the average length of stay is five months. While the hospital will work with patients and their families to obtain insurance coverage for treatment, the individual must accept full financial responsibility.
[This information came from the Austin Riggs website.]
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