Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center
Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center in Grand Rapids, MI, provides integrated healthcare and focuses on serving underserved communities. Unique for its comprehensive range of services, including primary care, dental, vision, and behavioral health, it operates with extended hours to meet diverse patient needs.
Cherry Health's mission is to improve health and wellness by providing comprehensive care while promoting access for underserved populations. Recognized with a Gold Level Health Center Quality Leader Award from HRSA in 2023, Heart of the City Health Center stands out for its commitment to high-quality healthcare.
- Extended hours: Open weekends and late hours to accommodate various schedules.
- Integrated care: Offers primary, dental, vision, behavioral health, and pharmacy services under one roof.
- Specialized programs: Features targeted programs like the Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) and the Durham Senior Health Center.
- Recognized quality: Awarded Gold Level Health Center Quality Leader by HRSA, placing it in the top 10% nationwide for performance quality.
Treating a range of issues including substance use disorders, Heart of the City Health Center serves underserved populations, making it a vital community resource for those in need of comprehensive healthcare.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 9 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 6 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 22 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
The inappropriate use of any drug in Grand Rapids, MI is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment at Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center
Opioid addiction is known as a high-risk factor for future heroin addiction. Opioid withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable and lead the user to continue to use. It is recommended to receive inpatient treatment and a medically supervised detox, Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center in Grand Rapids, MI offers treatment for opioids.
Dual-Diagnosis
A dual diagnosis is when someone deals with both alcohol and mental or emotional disorder. Emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression can be part of dual diagnosis therapy. It must happen simultaneously to get care for these conditions to handle any of them effectively.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Detoxification is a process that allows the patient to stop using opioids without experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms. This can be necessary for those who have been addicted for a long period of time or who are struggling with chronic pain. During this process, addicts will receive medication and psychological support from doctors and other medical professionals until they can control their cravings.
In outpatient programs at Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center, the Grand Rapids resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Treatment is just the first step to maintaining sobriety. After treatment, aftercare support at Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center helps the individual adjust to a life without substances. This support may involve a sober living home in or near Grand Rapids, MI, career counseling, or educational assistance. This is when a relapse prevention plan begins to take shape.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.
Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.
Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.
Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.
Rehabilitation is not just limited to bringing an individual out of addiction and achieving sobriety. It is considered complete only when an individual starts leading a normal and balanced life. Life skill therapy focuses on the various skills that helps an individual to lead a normal life. Patients often do not take care of themselves, struggle professionally and withdraw from social interaction due to the physical and emotional disturbances caused by addiction.
Life skills therapy helps them to improve various personal, professional and social skills such as cooking healthy meals, maintaining proper hygiene, budgeting, decision making, time management, regulation of emotions and resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at Cherry Health – Heart of the City Health Center
Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact
100 Cherry Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone Number
616-965-8200 x8215
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Grand Rapids, Michigan Addiction and Treatment
Michigan has the second-highest rate of drug and alcohol abuse in the nation. Heroin is linked to more than 50% of the state's hepatitis C cases. Marijuana is the drug most often associated with crimes in Michigan, followed by methamphetamines. Opioids alone are responsible for almost 20% of all drug overdose deaths in Michigan.
Grand Rapids, located in western Michigan, offers a variety of outdoor activities, a vibrant local food scene, and a thriving arts and culture community. From January 2022 to October 2023, Kent County experienced 141 opioid-related deaths, with fentanyl involved in 90% of those cases, and the county had a higher rate of opioid-related deaths compared to other counties in Michigan during this period.
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