Blandine House

Blandine House sits in Fond du Lac, WI, one of the many SAMHSA-registered addiction-treatment facilities across WI. The facility offers specific levels of care: Inpatient, Dual Dx. The interesting questions about any specific program are rarely the ones its website answers.

Care levels at Blandine House

The facility's documented care levels are The facility offers specific levels of care: Inpatient, Dual Dx. — each of which is appropriate for specific clinical presentations. Matching the level to the specific clinical need is the pre-admission work. The gap between "this facility offers residential" and "residential is the right level for this patient" is wider than most facility websites suggest. Bridge it with an outside assessment before committing.

Insurance and payment

Blandine House accepts Medicaid — which is consequential because facilities that accept Medicaid tend to have the broadest patient populations and the most developed public-sector relationships, though reimbursement structures mean program intensity sometimes differs from commercial-focused centers. The uncomfortable truth about insurance at most treatment centers is that admissions staff and the utilization-review team sometimes have different understandings of what was promised. Written VOB forces those understandings into alignment.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Adult men, Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. The gap between specialty-branding and specialty-programming is where a lot of families end up disappointed. Specific questions — who, how many hours, what credentials — close the gap before admission.

Before you call

Three questions for Blandine House before you sign anything: what ASAM level you are being admitted at; what the written VOB says for your plan; how the program handles MAT. If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether Blandine House offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care. These three together tell you most of what a facility's about.