Primary Focus
- Addiction Recovery Treatment
Our adult inpatient mental health and addiction treatment program offers sophisticated, coordinated care provided by an experienced team that includes board-certified psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, licensed social workers, and highly trained mental health workers. We work with you to create a customized treatment plan designed to ensure you get the most out of your care.
We provide skilled assessment, rapid intervention, and acute crisis stabilization for adults who are experiencing severe episodes of:
An average inpatient stay at the Retreat lasts from 5 to 14 days. When you’re ready to leave we offer a variety of high quality programs and services designed to help you build on the gains you made in the hospital and get stronger and more comfortable in your recovery. For example:
In addition to glass containers and items containing alcohol, patients are not permitted to bring computers, cell phones, and other handheld devices. Jewelry is also prohibited. As mentioned earlier, do not bring any type of clothing that has ties, strings or belts. These include scarves, sashes, sweat pants with a drawstring, laced shoes, and belts made of leather, cloth, or metal.
Specific programs may have additional prohibitions based on the nature of their services. Please ask an admissions coordinator for more information.
Visiting hours are available seven days a week (in most cases). However, different programs at the Brattleboro Retreat have different policies regarding visiting hours. Please check with the appropriate nurse manager or charge nurse if you have questions.
The Brattleboro Retreat is a tobacco free campus. Patients, staff, and visitors (including volunteers, vendors, contract workers, etc.) are prohibited from using tobacco products anywhere inside Retreat buildings or on the grounds of the Brattleboro Retreat.
The Brattleboro Retreat campus is located in beautiful southern Vermont. We offer easy access from points throughout New England and beyond. Our buildings and grounds look much like that of a college campus with a central green, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, and close proximity to the restaurants, shops, and cultural hot spots in downtown Brattleboro.