{"id":13892,"date":"2021-10-09T14:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/?page_id=13892"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:16:17","slug":"inpatient-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/inpatient-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Inpatient Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_0b6bd5f67e\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_b6d3203234\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_half\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_f4eb70cd1d\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_half\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_heading_a82262ad0f\" class=\"cmsmasters_heading_wrap cmsmasters_heading_align_left\">\n\t<h1 class=\"cmsmasters_heading\">Inpatient Care<\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters_text\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">We believe recovery is achievable \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_divider_dce519783a\" class=\"cl\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_a3889bf150\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_ecdf7ef555\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_half\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_fb_admmi2sbd\" class=\"cmsmasters_featured_block\">\n<div class=\"featured_block_inner\">\n<div class=\"featured_block_text\">\n<h4>MCES provides hospitalization to adults (age 18 and over) at risk of harm to self or others, or otherwise unable to care for themselves because of serious mental illness. <a href=\"https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Inpatient-Psychiatric-Care-Program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MCES strives to resolve severe mental health crises<\/a>, stabilize psychiatric emergencies, and arrange ongoing care as needed.<\/h4>\n<h4>A multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social service caseworkers, allied therapists and psychiatric technicians provides care that is recovery-oriented, strength-based, and trauma aware. Physician Assistants address ongoing patient medical needs.<\/h4>\n<h4>We help patients with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders understand how their mental health and treatment are affected by substance use, how mental illness affects sobriety and recovery, and why treatment for both must be concurrent.<\/h4>\n<h4>We offer counseling by certified addiction specialists, recovery and educational groups, and<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14373\" src=\"http:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OARS-Official-Logo-295x300.png\" alt=\"MCES OARS Logo\" width=\"265\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OARS-Official-Logo-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OARS-Official-Logo-768x780.png 768w, https:\/\/mces.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OARS-Official-Logo-65x65.png 65w, 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class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_heading_n41xqfm9n9\" class=\"cmsmasters_heading_wrap cmsmasters_heading_align_left\">\n\t<h2 class=\"cmsmasters_heading\">MCES Inpatient Services Include:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_divider_eivty0gs7p\" class=\"cmsmasters_divider cmsmasters_divider_width_long cmsmasters_divider_pos_center\"><\/div>\n<ul id=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_items_xqryu6xzlm\" class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_items cmsmasters_icon_list_type_block cmsmasters_icon_list_pos_left cmsmasters_color_type_border\"><li id=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_item_71h7k72mwe\" class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_item\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_item_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_icon_wrap\">\n<span class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_icon cmsmasters-icon-custom-1\"><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_item_content\">\n<h4 class=\"cmsmasters_icon_list_item_title\">Prevention of harm\/ destruction of self, others, and\/ or property <\/h4>\n<div 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