Crozer-Keystone Health System’s outpatient addiction recovery and mental health services are relocating from Community Hospital to the new Community Campus, located at 301 West 15th Street in Chester.

The move will begin in mid-January and conclude by mid-February. The Crozer-Keystone Drug and Alcohol Access Center will be relocated to Crozer-Chester Medical Center’s emergency department, directly across the street from Community Campus. No services are being eliminated in this transition.

The move and proximity to Crozer means patients will have immediate access to a complete continuum of behavioral health and acute care services on an advanced healthcare campus. Crozer already offers inpatient detoxification and rehabilitation, outpatient psychiatry, crisis services, and an inpatient psychiatric unit, which is also located at Community Campus.

“Crozer-Keystone has become a destination for behavioral healthcare in the Philadelphia five-county region, including our highly-regarded drug and alcohol programs,” said health system CEO Sharif Omar. “Bringing all of these services together will improve access and patient experience, and because of the close proximity to a full-service acute care hospital, can positively impact clinical outcomes.”

Behavioral health services offered by Crozer-Keystone have become heralded and earned recognition throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The range of services includes inpatient and outpatient substance abuse, crisis intervention, outpatient counseling, and inpatient psychiatric treatment. The health system boasts one of the first opioid treatment centers of excellence in Pennsylvania, which helped more than 1,000 clients in its first six months of service. Both Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Human Services Teresa Miller have visited the site to recognize the team’s best practices.

The health system offers inpatient detoxification and rehabilitation at Crozer, along with outpatient programs for pregnant women who are challenged with opiate use disorder.

“In recent years, we’ve built a formidable service line of addiction treatment and mental health programs,” said Dr. Kevin Caputo, chair of psychiatry and vice president of behavioral health. “The need for these services is tremendous, given the epidemic status of opioid abuse. As long as the need exists at this troubling level, we will continue to strategically evolve with comprehensive clinical programs.”

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