Multiple levels of care

Inpatient is the highest, most intense level of behavioral healthcare available. This is short-term care available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to help you or your loved one achieve a stable medical and emotional condition.

Inpatient care may be what you need in emergency situations for withdrawal from drug or alcohol addiction, to regain nutrients and achieve a healthy intake of food or perhaps to keep yourself safe from personal harm or suicidal thoughts. Led by full-time board-certified psychiatrists, our multidisciplinary team develops a care plan designed specifically for you. Once safely stable, we’ll work with you on a transition to the next appropriate level of care.

Rogers offers separate and distinct units for inpatient treatment for children, teens and adults at our hospital locations in:

• Brown Deer, Wisconsin
• Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
• West Allis, Wisconsin

In addition to our units which include beds for withdrawal management (detox) for adults, you will find specialized, dedicated units at Rogers for adults and adolescents challenged with eating disorders.

The length of stay for inpatient care varies; the average is six to seven days for adults, and eight to nine days for children and adolescents. Eating disorder length of stay is two to three weeks.

What is inpatient care like?

All inpatient locations offer a comfortable setting with a semi-private bedroom and homelike community spaces. Our inpatient units are intentionally designed with your safety in mind.

In addition to general nursing care and medical management, inpatient care includes varying levels of behavioral and experiential therapy to meet individual needs.

Supervised meals and snacks are included and will be provided by staff. If you prefer a vegetarian diet and your treatment team agrees, our dining services can accommodate. Options for other diets, such as vegan and gluten-free, vary by location.

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Through specialized outpatient care, you or your child may make minor adjustments in your thoughts and behaviors. Individuals in this type of care are healthy and stable enough to return to work, school or home after their regular daytime therapy sessions. At Rogers, this is our lowest level of behavioral health treatment. We offer two levels of specialized outpatient care:

• Partial hospitalization care (PHP). Insurance plans and providers use this term to describe day treatment that is several hours daily for several weeks. In some communities, this describes a program that is within a hospital setting. All Rogers’ partial hospitalization care is in outpatient centers as part of a hospital campus or in freestanding locations.
• Intensive outpatient care (IOP). This is treatment which is more intensive than many community-based outpatient programs, but requires fewer hours per day than partial hospitalization care. 

At Rogers, outpatient care is available for a wide range of behavioral health conditions, such as:

• Alcohol or drug addiction
• Anxiety disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Co-occurring or multiple conditions
• Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Depression or other mood disorder
• Mental health and co-occurring addiction 
• Eating disorders
• Anxiety and depression in children and teens in ASD

What is outpatient care like?

If you’re attending partial hospitalization care at Rogers, you receive approximately six hours of treatment per day, five days per week. In intensive outpatient care, you’ll attend treatment sessions approximately three hours per day, five days per week. Exact days and times vary by program and location.

You’ll engage in a variety of therapies in both individual and group sessions. These therapies are proven to help reduce your symptoms. To help you receive a deeper understanding of your treatment, you may participate in experiential or art therapy.

As in all of Rogers’ care, your family’s involvement helps determine your success in treatment. Your family may be asked to participate in educational sessions or other sessions aimed at building a healthy transition into life after programming.

Rogers requires parent involvement in many PHP and IOP programs for children and adolescents. Research demonstrates that patients have better outcomes when families participate in treatment. The sessions allow parents to understand the therapy goals and treatment as well as gain skills that are useful in supporting children and teens during and after treatment. Some programs require parents with children under the age of 13 to be present throughout the entire treatment process. In some programs, full parent participation is required during the first two weeks of treatment for all those with children under the age of 18 and then weekly family therapy sessions and Parent University educational classes once or twice a week.

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