Community Health Network – Community Howard Regional Health

Community Health Network – Community Howard Regional Health in Kokomo, Indiana, is a general hospital that has a 12 bed adult psychiatric unit. If you’re in need of treatment for mental health disorders and addiction treatment together, they may be able to help you.

Psychiatric inpatient treatment is for people who are having trouble with their daily functioning due to their mental health problems. It’s also for people who need a safe environment to keep them from harming themselves or other people. It’s very common to have substance use issues on top of mental health problems. For that reason, the inpatient unit at Howard Regional Health can also help you detox in an environment that supports your recovery.

The length of stay you can expect will depend on your needs. If you need to detox, that usually takes at least three days in most settings and could take the better part of a week.

Psychiatric inpatient units are similar to rehab in many ways, but they differ in some important aspects. The length of stay is usually much shorter than what it would be in rehab. There are also usually more rules and restrictions. Psychiatric unit staff closely monitor items that are brought into the unit to ensure everyone’s safety. As a result, you may find that you can’t keep things like shoelaces, wires, drawstrings or belts.

A great feature of their inpatient psychiatric unit is its size. Twelve beds is large enough that they can hold meaningful groups but small enough that there aren’t an overwhelming number of people.

The health system that their unit belongs to has many other behavioral health services in other locations. That’s an important feature if you’re coming in without a therapist or a prescriber because they can connect you to outpatient services within their system. Having access to aftercare will support you in your recovery.

They take many types of insurance, and they can help you enroll if you don’t have insurance. They also have an active financial assistance program with staff who will walk you through the process of obtaining financial aid.