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<p><strong>ABOUT WELLINGTON RETREAT</strong></p> <p>With <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/dasis2/nssats/n2016_st_profiles.pdf" target="_blank">366 private, for-profit rehabs</a>, Florida is one of the US's recovery hotspots, and nowhere more so than the upscale Palm Beach region of southeast Florida, which is home to Wellington Retreat. Set in a converted building that could once have been a hotel, Wellington Retreat provides <strong>residential care and several levels of outpatient treatment</strong> for adults and adolescents struggling with substance use disorder and <a href="http://www.recovery.org/topics/dual-diagnosis-recovery/" target="_blank">dual diagnoses</a>. Wellington Retreat is also one of just <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/dasis2/nssats/n2016_st_profiles.pdf" target="_blank">10.2 percent</a> of Florida-based facilities that offers <strong>medical detox</strong> on a residential (rather than outpatient or hospital inpatient) basis.</p> <p>A <strong>dedicated program for pregnant women and new mothers</strong> allows babies to live with their mothers in transitional apartments while the mother is in treatment — one of just <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/dasis2/nssats/n2016_st_profiles.pdf" target="_blank">17 facilities</a> in the state of Florida to offer beds for clients' children.</p> <p><strong>TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT</strong></p> <p>Treatment starts with an initial assessment and a meeting with a neuropsychiatrist, who diagnose clients and recommends a treatment program. The length of treatment varies according to the client's needs, though many individuals spend between <strong>60 and 90 days</strong> in the program.</p> <p>Wellington Retreat offers a full spectrum of programs, starting with 24-hour-monitored medical detox. The facility also offers residential treatment, <strong>a partial hospitalization program (PHP)</strong> with community housing, <strong>an intensive outpatient program (IOP)</strong> with optional transitional housing, and standard outpatient care. And for those clients seeking help with an opioid addiction, Wellington Retreat is one of the <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/dasis2/nssats/n2016_st_profiles.pdf" target="_blank">23.2 percent</a> of Florida rehabs that offers a <strong>Suboxone program.</strong></p> <p>According to the center’s website, Wellington Retreat uses a multidisciplinary approach that <strong>combines 12-Step with evidence-based methods</strong> such as both cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies (CBT and DBT), motivational enhancement therapy (MET), and motivational interviewing.</p> <p>Programming for adolescent emphasizes <strong>the importance of treating co-occurring disorders,</strong> which might include ADHD, schizophrenia, depression, social anxiety, or panic disorder. There's also the opportunity to <strong>continue with school</strong> through virtual schooling or completing assignments sent by their hometown school.</p> <p><strong>STAFF CREDENTIALS</strong></p> <p>The facility’s treatment team includes an addiction psychiatrist, nurses, and licensed mental health counselors, plus coordinators and facility managers. The single individual polled by Rehabs.com to date on the staff's level of experience gave it two out of five stars.</p> <p><strong>ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES</strong></p> <p>Wellington Retreat's facility is large and decorated in a bright, homey style, with plenty of large leather couches and lounging areas. There's an <strong>outdoor pool</strong> but no yard, and clients share bedrooms. The two individuals polled by Rehabs.com to date on the center's accommodations and amenities, meals and nutrition, and cleanliness and upkeep gave unenthusiastic two- and three-star ratings in each category.</p> <p><strong>WHAT ALUMNI SAY</strong></p> <p>The two alumni reviews submitted to Rehabs.com to date are polarized."It's really wonderful," one anonymous reviewer wrote without elaborating. But alum Amy gave the center two stars in most of the evaluated treatment metrics, including its safety and comfort, family participation, and staff availability. "They mixed just mental health patients with addicts and those psych patients would end up using drugs... They ruin relationships and cut off people from their families," Amy wrote, adding that she felt the center actively lowered its clients' self-esteem.</p> <p>On secondary sites, Wellington Retreat has <strong>mixed feedback, skewing positive,</strong> with average ratings of 3.7 stars based on 51 reviews on Facebook (where the facility can manage its own page), 4.3 stars based on 35 reviews on Google, and five stars based on eight reviews on YellowPages.com, plus, on Yelp, two one-star ratings and 39 "not recommended" reviews that are split roughly evenly between one-star and five-star ratings.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></small> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></small> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></small> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-4"><sup>[4]</sup></a></small> Recurring complaints cited inaccurate representations of the center's services, a toxic culture among the staff, and <strong>questionable business practices</strong> such as over-billing insurance. </p> <p>"Do not believe their lies they tell you on the phone to get you in the door, because as soon as you leave the whole game changes. It is nothing like they tell you," Michelle wrote in a typical comment on Yelp. But many other clients wrote that the facility had changed their lives, and offered <strong>particularly high praise for the staff:</strong> "I just got of treatment form Wellington Retreat and it has totally changed my life. The Doctors and staff are very knowledgeable and caring," Nathan wrote in a typical comment.</p> <p><strong>WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY</strong></p> <p>Of the two loved ones polled by Rehabs.com to date, one noted only that the center offers family weekends, while the other expressed her disappointment with the center. Marsha echoed reviewers on secondary sites who complained about misleading marketing and admissions practices, writing that Wellington didn't provide their son with the promised help, and adding: "We knew his diagnosis and the kind of treatment it required. They should have just told us they did not do that." She gave the center just one star for its counseling, holistic offerings, and staff support, and two stars for its family involvement.</p> <p><strong>WHAT STAFF SAY</strong></p> <p>The single staffer polled by Rehabs.com to date echoed other reviewers' concerns about Wellington Retreat's ethics. "They lie to get you there...Its all about money," the anonymous reviewer wrote, indicating that they had concerns about the care provided, and giving the facility just one star for its honesty, its willingness to put clients' interests first, and the overall quality of its care.</p> <p><strong>FINANCING</strong></p> <p>Wellington Retreat is in-network with Aetna, First Health, Beacon Health, and Prime Health Services Mental Health, and accepts other insurance on an out-of-network basis. The single individual polled by Rehabs.com to date on the center's affordability gave it two out of five stars.</p> <p><small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/treatment4u/reviews/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/treatment4u/reviews/?ref=page_internal</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Wellington+Retreat.+lantana+fl&oq=Wellington+Retreat.+lantana+fl&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.2052j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x88d8d6379e0bed43:0xa8c89407b340c5d4,1,,," target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=Wellington+Retreat.+lantana+fl&oq=Wellington+Retreat.+lantana+fl&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.2052j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x88d8d6379e0bed43:0xa8c89407b340c5d4,1,,,</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.yellowpages.com/lantana-fl/mip/wellington-retreat-467539946?lid=467539946" target="_blank">https://www.yellowpages.com/lantana-fl/mip/wellington-retreat-467539946?lid=467539946</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/wellington-retreat-lantana-4?osq=Wellington+Retreat." target="_blank">https://www.yelp.com/biz/wellington-retreat-lantana-4?osq=Wellington+Retreat.</a></small></p>
— Ellie Robins · 2018-08-04 12:23:17 PDT
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