Alvarado Parkway Institute BHS

Alvarado Parkway Institute is a top behavioral health hospital in San Diego, El Cajon and La Mesa CA. For mental health services, talk to our psychiatrists!

API provides comprehensive adult inpatient behavioral health and addictive disorders services in a 66 bed hospital setting located in La Mesa, California. At Alvarado Parkway Institute, we are committed to improving the mental health and well-being of our community.  Alvarado Parkway Institute is San Diego's leading provider of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse care. 

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API offers a variety of Outpatient Services designed to assist patients in functioning at the highest level. Alvarado Parkway Institute provides Partial Hospitalization services and Intensive Outpatient services. These programs emphasize symptom management, community integration and prevention of hospitalization or re-hospitalization. Value added services enhance the patient's treatment experience. Themed activities promote wellness and social skills building.

API encourages family support whenever possible. Patients are encouraged to include family members in the treatment process.  We understand the challenges involved when a loved one is struggling with mental illness, addiction, or both. Our clinical team members look forward to providing support, education, resources, and treatment to family members.

Alvarado Parkway Institute is licensed by the California Department of Public Health and accredited by The Joint Commission.If you have any quality of care or patient safety concerns, please contact the API Patient/Family Representative at 619-667-6162. If you feel your concerns need to be addressed further, you may contact the Department of Public Health at 619-278-3700 or The Joint Commission at 1-800-994-6610.

Primary Focus of the Provider

• Mental Health Treatment Services

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Type of Care

• Substance abuse treatment
• Detoxification
• Relapse prevention from naltrxone
• Buprenorphine used in treatment
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Vivitrol (injectable Naltrexone)
• Prescribes/administer buprenorphine and/or naltrexone

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Facility Type

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Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive/behavioral therapy
• Dialectical behavioral therapy
• Substance abuse counseling approach
• Trauma-related counseling
• Rational emotive behavioral therapy

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Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

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Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient
• Outpatient
• Outpatient detoxification
• Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Hospital inpatient detoxification
• Hospital inpatient treatment
• Psychiatric hospital

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Facility Operation (e.g. Private, Public)

• Private organization
• State mental health department
• State department of health
• Hospital licensing authority
• The Joint Commission

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Payment/Insurance Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Private health insurance
• Military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

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Emergency Mental Health Services

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Payment Assistance Available

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Language Services

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Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
• Adult women

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Ancillary Services

• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Alcohol Detoxification
• Benzodiazepines Detoxification
• Opiods Detoxification
• Individual counseling offered
• Group counseling offered
• Family counseling offered
• Marital/couples counseling offered
• 12-step faciltitation approach
• Brief intervention approach
• Motivational interviewing
• Anger management
• Relapse prevention

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Age Groups Accepted

• Young adults
• Adults

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Gender Accepted

• Female
• Male

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Exclusive Services

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