A medical model residential treatment center offering a psychiatry program and physical medicine services
Live-in psychiatry program for individuals with
co-occurring medical and behavioral or mental health conditions
Individuals with simultaneous physical, mental, and behavioral conditions often struggle to find comprehensive care. Many psychiatric hospitals cannot provide medical care, and standard hospitals are often unable to manage psychiatric disorders. This leaves people and their families searching for care after being turned away time and time again.
The True North Program at Nexus guides individuals through their mental, behavioral, and physical health struggles to get them back on the right path. By combining clinical methodology, rehabilitation techniques, and providing ongoing medical care as needed, True North helps heal the whole person and sets individuals up to grow into confident individuals.
Though just the starting point, the program gives our patients and residents a true north — a point to strive towards. We’re here to care for individuals as they work toward goals, or their summits, because we’re compassionately mending minds.
Two rehabilitation settings designed to care for individuals struggling with behavioral and mental health conditions and co-existing physical health needs
Nexus Children’s Hospital
For patients with more acute medical, behavioral, and mental health needs, this medical inpatient setting combines the characteristics of a hospital with features of a residential environment. Individuals admit from an acute care hospital, psychiatric facility, or home.
Nexus Neurorecovery Center
Our medical model residential treatment center offers a supportive, structured programming environment to help adolescents, young adults, and adults with mental health diagnoses. We’re also intentionally different since our team can address simultaneous medical needs. Individuals can admit from Nexus Children’s Hospital to follow our continuum, other referral source, or home.
it’s time to find your true north
Our behavioral program coordinators will help you find the right setting based on individual needs.
Supporting medical and psychiatric needs with hospital and residential treatment center settings
The True North Program interdisciplinary team provides medical care, psychiatric services, and rehabilitation to meet all patient needs within a single facility. By providing holistic care in a single setting, Nexus has helped individuals experience independence and reintegration home and into non-institutional environments.
- Hospital and medical model residential treatment center
- Integrates psychiatry, internal medicine, and physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians in one setting
- A personalized plan that combines different types of services, based on your unique needs
- Individual and group therapies, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), family systems therapy/family psychoeducation, and interpersonal psychotherapy
- Behavioral health counseling
- Physical, occupational, and speech therapies
- Recreational therapy, pet therapy, music therapy, and activities
- On-site teacher/school to continue education and help individuals get caught up
- 24-hour nursing coverage
True North Program services
- Neuropsychological Evaluations
- Occupational Therapy
- Outpatient Care
- Physical Therapy
- Psychiatry & Behavioral Management
- Recreational Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy/Pulmonary
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
Meet a True North Program champion
“I have seen Maggie face her fears, try new things, learn effective coping skills, and become a source of encouragement to her peers. She has grown in her ability to advocate for herself and her desire to stay healthy.”
— Nexus social worker
Diagnosis criteria for psychiatric patients with medical needs
The True North program provides a warm, friendly care environment for medically complex individuals. We often treat individuals who experience behavioral, mood, and psychiatric challenges as a result of conditions such as trauma and brain injury, diabetes, and spina bifida — to name a few.
- Anxiety Disorders
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Behavior Dysregulation
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Cutting and Self-Harm
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- History of Homicidal Ideation
- Major Depression Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Somatization Disorders
- History of Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
How to choose the right psychiatry program
Finding the right psychiatric and medical program that can address all of you or your loved one’s needs can feel daunting. The following tips will help you narrow down your options and select the best fit.
- Understanding the diagnosis. It’s essential to enter the search for a psychiatry program with a solid understanding of you or your loved one’s diagnosis, including all co-occurring conditions. Does the individual need primary care in addition to psychiatric or behavioral treatment? With a clear understanding of needs, you’ll be fully equipped to ask the right questions before you commit to a program.
- Ask a lot of questions. As you speak to clinicians and facility representatives, ask as many questions as possible. What types of care are they equipped to offer? What credentials do their clinicians hold? What are the most common diagnoses treated by the facility? In addition to general inquiries about the program, it can be helpful to question individual staff members. What do they love about their work? What inspired them to pursue their profession? The answers to such questions will suggest how invested staff members are in their patients’ wellbeing, and thus the overall effectiveness of the program.
- Check reviews. Even if you feel you’ve found the perfect program after conducting research and meeting with clinicians, it’s always a good idea to check a facility’s online reputation. Are the program’s ratings generally positive? Do current and former patients report feeling supported and safe? Bear in mind that many factors can affect patient satisfaction, but a high percentage of positive reviews is a good indication of a quality program.