Admissions Criteria

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Lakewood Center is a residential community offering long-term psychiatric treatment to adults ages 21 and over diagnosed with a mental illness including Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

All of our programs require a minimum length of stay of 6 months, and families interested in Lakewood often appreciate the fact that there is no maximum length of stay as long as their loved one continues to meet the criteria. Candidates for admission will have a diagnosis of a chronic mental illness, be ambulatory and free of major medical conditions requiring on-going nursing care, willing to participate in a treatment program and its services, assessed as having the potential (with staff supervision) to self-administer medication, maintain personal hygiene and appropriately participate in social interactions.

Lakewood Center does not participate in Medicare or Medicaid programs and does not accept commercial or private insurance.

We are not equipped to provide treatment to individuals that require support for the following:

EXCLUSIONARY CRITERIA

  • Primary drug or alcohol disorders

  • Eating disorders

  • Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Cognitive challenges

  • Non-compliance with prescribed medications

  • History of violence or exhibits violent tendencies

  • Actively suicidal

  • Involuntary admissions

Lakewood Center is an "open" campus and would not be an appropriate placement for an individual who requires 24-hour visual monitoring for safety.

We urge actively suicidal individuals to seek a facility equipped for 24-hour visual monitoring and assistance.


Our resident population is characterized by the following primary diagnoses

WHO WE TREAT

  • Schizophrenia

  • Schizoaffective
    Disorder

  • Bipolar Disorder

  • Depressive Disorders

  • Anxiety Disorders

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