How to help patients in crisis

More people need help than ever before.

As people stay home to help slow the spread of COVID-19, many are seeing another crisis emerge right in their family’s safe haven. Mental health and substance use issues are soaring, with isolation, hypervigilance, financial hardships and the pandemic’s uncertain duration and outcome taking their toll on even the healthiest among us.

For people most susceptible to addiction, anxiety and depression, this might be the most challenging time of their lives. Families are seeing the power of addiction up close as their loved ones struggle to cope, sometimes putting themselves at greater risk just to maintain a steady supply of mood- and mind-altering substances.

We are here to help you get your patients, clients and employees the lifesaving care they need.

Our residential and recovery housing sites are all open nationwide, with significant safeguards to protect the health of our patients and clinical teams. Our safeguards have worked phenomenally well, enabling us to keep COVID-19 out of our facilities, so that patients are focused on treatment and recovery. Soon we will add to our rigorous safety measures by testing all incoming patients for COVID-19, using a nasopharyngeal swab that has proven to be the best and most reliable test available at this time. We are pleased to collaborate with multiple partner labs to make testing possible and add an extra layer of safety for our patients and staff.

We have continued to be a force of healing and hope throughout the pandemic because of our commitment to both the recovery and safety of our patients and their families. We look forward to helping the people you serve through this challenging time and beyond.

RecoveryGo™ virtual services now available to new patients and families.
We continue to expand our virtual outpatient and mental health services—the cornerstone of Hazelden Betty Ford’s RecoveryGo™ telehealth solutions: [link removed] . Our insurance-covered virtual group and individual therapy is now available in numerous states, connecting patients and their counselor in real-time via personal computers and mobile devices in the comfort of their homes.
We are also now providing a one-day virtual family program, led by our world-class clinicians, available not just to the loved ones of our patients and families around the country, but to anyone anywhere whose family has been affected by addiction.

If your patients and clients are in need of outpatient addiction treatment, mental health or family programming, please reach out to us to learn more. Visit our website: [link removed] or call a patient access coordinator at 1‑800‑257‑7800: tel:+18002577800 .

Free Online Resources

Let's Talk Webinars
May 20 | noon – 1 p.m. Central
Differing Shades of Shame in Substance Use Disorders
Presenter: Kristen Schmidt, MD
Shame is a word often used by both patients and care providers in addressing substance use disorders. But there are differing shades of shame—with different implications for recovery. Join psychiatrist Kristen Schmidt, MD, to define and differentiate healthy and unhealthy aspects of shame that can either impede or promote recovery from substance use disorders. Dr. Schmidt will also discuss emerging evidence on the interaction between stigma and shame.
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Webinars On Demand
Keeping Healthy During the Pandemic
Presenters: Dr. Marvin D. Seppala, Bob Poznanovich and William C. Moyers
Join Hazelden Betty Ford Chief Medical Officer Marvin D. Seppala, MD, and Vice President of Business Development Bob Poznanovich for a conversation with host William C. Moyers, vice president of public affairs and community relations, to learn strategies that can support personal wellbeing amid the pandemic affecting us all. The presenters also will share how Hazelden Betty Ford is meeting the urgent needs of the people we serve with robust new COVID-19 protocols and procedures to minimize risks for residential patients and staff, and new virtual care services for outpatient, mental health and family support, along with free online resources to support recovery everywhere.
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Podcasts
Let’s Talk Addiction and Recovery: An award-winning podcast series hosted by William C. Moyers
Check out all of our episodes including an exclusive interview with Susan Ford Bales as she recounts the 1978 family intervention that led to her mother’s treatment for addiction.
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Help Us Advocate
Hazelden Betty Ford is part of a broad coalition of behavioral health organizations and patient advocacy groups asking Congress for crisis funding to help ensure patients in need continue to get services during the pandemic. We are working with our trade association, the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, to advocate for $38.5 billion in proposed direct payments: [link removed] to organizations providing mental health and substance use disorder treatment. While this request has strong bipartisan support within our field and among many members of Congress, every segment of society is asking for pandemic-related assistance. You can help by thanking your own U.S. Senators and Representative if they have signed on in support: [link removed] of emergency funding for behavioral health organizations or by asking for their support.

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Sign up for our regular Advocacy Updates: [link removed]

24/7 Access to Help
Our Referent Relations team is available to support you and your patients and clients—now amid the pandemic, and always.
To reach a member of the team and start an admission, call 1‑855‑348‑7018: tel:+18553487018 or email us at [email protected]: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Admission%20for%20treatment%20at%20Hazelden%20Betty%20Ford . Additional resources include the National Suicide Hotline at 1‑800‑273‑8255: tel:+18002738255 .

Thank you for your continued collaboration and commitment to the individuals and families that need our collective help now more than ever.

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT TO EXPAND LIFESAVING CARE
Several generous donors have joined forces to match the first $225,000 in donations to our COVID-19 Response Fund. Your gift today will go twice as far in extending the reach of healing and hope.
The need for access to lifesaving care has never been more urgent or complex.
While COVID-19 has presented challenges, we remain open, providing much-needed care and support to patients in a safe residential environment, while expanding our virtual treatment and family services to thousands of new patients.
Make a lifesaving difference with us. Just as the disease of addiction knows no bounds, neither can our care. More than ever, people need to know help is within reach.
Please give generously, knowing that your matched dollars save more lives.
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15251 Pleasant Valley Rd.
PO Box 11 RW19
Center City, MN 55012-0011

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