Residential Treatment Services

The Saint John Vianney Center is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Our compassionate team of Clergy, Religious, and clinical professionals can provide a confidential assessment concerning Clergy or Religious who may be in crisis or having behavioral health or addiction related issues.

Please call us at 888-993-8885 for confidential and immediate assistance, and/or arrangements for admission.

Activities are an integral part of our holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to improve health in mind, body and spirit. The variety of activities offered provide an opportunity for self-exploration, continued learning, healing, improved self-care and rehabilitation depending on the needs of the resident during their journey to wellness.

Activities include:

• Fitness walking and hiking
• Modified exercise classes
• Strength training and conditioning; trainer on site​
• Pilates; trainer on site
• Indoor and outdoor recreational activities
• Arts and crafts
• Horticulture
• Trips to explore culture, fine arts and history

The Continuing Care Department at the Saint John Vianney Center assists residents in maintaining their highest level of functioning of physical, behavioral, and spiritual wellness for a minimum of one year following discharge from our programs. Each individual is assigned a Continuing Care Coordinator who assists them in developing a Wellness Plan prior to discharge. The plan is approved by a representative of their leadership team and signed off by the resident and each member of their inter-disciplinary team. The Continuing Care Coordinator maintains monthly contact with the former resident and identified diocese/congregational contact person. These sessions occur via telephone or confidential video conferencing, in addition to bi-monthly participation in meetings with the Integration Support Team in order to provide support and accountability to the Wellness Plan and identified goals.

Our Continuing Care Department:

• Works with our inter-disciplinary assessment/treatment team
• Engages in community consultations and onsite visits
• Works directly with the individual and their leadership
• Assists in coordinating referrals for discharge
• Works with the resident in establishing an integrative support team

The Sacramental life of our residents is essential to the care and mission of Saint John Vianney Center. The daily celebration of the Eucharist in our chapel is the focal point of each day. The Sacraments of Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick are also regularly offered along with the Liturgy of the Hours and other enriching spiritual and prayer practices.

Our residents tell us that spending time in our chapel for communal liturgies and private prayer is instrumental in restoring and renewing their relationship with the Lord and providing needed balance in their lives.

Our liturgical opportunities include:

• Daily Celebration of the Eucharist
• Sacrament of Reconciliation
• Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick: celebrated monthly at Mass and as requested.
• Holy Hours with Exposition and Benediction
• Liturgy of the Hours
• Lectio Divina and Devotional prayers
• Reflection and Retreat Days

The Saint John Vianney Center treatment team includes medical doctors as part of our holistic, inter-disciplinary approach to care for mind, body, and spirit. A doctor will meet with the resident to assess their current health condition and can address the entire spectrum of medical issues that may be present or arise. This includes a complete physical exam, requests for lab work or referrals to specialists when necessary and prescription maintenance. The doctor is able to continue existing care, monitors the residents’ condition while they are at the center and makes recommendations for the resident’s wellness plan upon discharge​.

Our Nursing Department is comprised of Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants and Behavioral Health Technicians who provide 24/7 on-site nursing care. The Nursing staff comes from diverse clinical settings bringing experience ranging from behavioral health, addictions and medical nursing, making care possible for patients with a wide array of co-morbid conditions. The nurses are part of the treatment team and function collaboratively with other team members providing holistic care to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

The Nursing Department

• Provides the utmost privacy, security and safety for its patients
• Provides 24/7 on-site nursing care
• Admits residents 7 days per week, 24 hours a day
• Is in contact with physicians 24/7
• Coordinates on-site diagnostic testing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy
• Cultivates wellness in a caring environment
• Provides education on weight management, medical aspects of behavioral health and addiction, healthy lifestyles, etc.
• Provides individualized care and treatment
• All rooms are private with a private bathroom, some ADA friendly.
• Realizes the relationship of psychology to medical care
• Recognizes the importance of faith to medical care

Our inter-disciplinary team includes a dietitian to assist Clergy and Religious in their journey to a healthy lifestyle.  Our mission is to help residents build a healthy relationship to food, while promoting self-care for long term emotional and physical health.  Services offered include:

• Individualized counseling in nutrition and wellness
• Education in healthy cooking, meal planning, and shopping
• Support and guidance for sustainable lifestyle changes
• Weight loss and weight management

Our Psychology team utilizes a variety of techniques to create a supportive environment that facilitates open conversation in a non-judgmental setting. In psychotherapy, our team works to assist residents to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. We collaborate with those entrusted to our care to develop unique goals, and learn the insights and skills necessary to meet these goals. We find that at the completion of psychotherapy our residents are much better equipped to cope with life’s challenges.

Our Psychiatry team is intricately involved in every resident’s evaluation and treatment since the identification of a specific psychiatric illness’s presence often has a significant effect on the course of a resident’s evaluation and recommendations for treatment. Each new resident receives a complete psychiatric assessment as part of their comprehensive evaluation. The attending psychiatrist may diagnose a newly emerging or newly identified psychiatric illness or addiction. In other situations, the psychiatrist will make adjustments to treatments the resident may have already begun or will provide appropriate continuing care for psychiatric illnesses that are well-controlled.

Our psychiatrists:

• Assist the assessment and treatment teams in evaluating the interactions between medical, physical, and psychological factors within each individual
• Help the team coordinate the mental health care with appropriate medical care. This may be particularly significant, for example, in residents who suffer from chronic pain or other chronic, debilitating illness.
• Help the resident resolve or learn to manage psychiatric symptoms. This is a necessary step in assuring that the resident can engage as fully and effectively as possible in their overall treatment plan.

Our staff psychiatrists are on site daily to provide routine care, to participate in treatment planning, and to quickly address urgent matters that may arise in the course of treatment. They have over forty years combined experience treating clergy and religious demonstrating their dedication to and interest in our residents’ well-being and ultimate return to active ministry.

Our rehabilitative services include physical therapy, occupational therapy , and speech therapy for optimal functioning and wellness.

The members of our Spiritual Care department aim to accompany the resident along his/her spiritual journey. The Spiritual Care Advisor helps the resident tend to his/her inner life by offering guidance for prayer, spiritual reading, practice, and integration of the spiritual life with the on-going work of the therapeutic program. Our approach to care begins with value and respect for an individual expression of spirituality while honoring the charisms of every resident’s promises or vows. We assist each resident to accept their humanity and life circumstances as part of their conversion story of grace. Residents are challenged to enter into their own life as an incarnational experience blessed and called into the fullness of their unique created goodness.