MercyOne House of Mercy - Des Moines

They treat people at inpatient residential, inpatient hospital, outpatient and telemedicine. Outpatient keeps you at home and working, and a residential stay takes you out of the place you were using in.

No detox here. A center can still take someone after a detox elsewhere, which is the common order of events, and the nearest one is under a mile away in Des Moines.

One of their programs is built for people who are pregnant or just postpartum, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is one of the 10 named here.

They treat young people from 12 up, so a parent calling from Des Moines about a teenager is in the right place.

Alongside this, Des Moines has 24 NA meetings and 13 free AA meetings.

8 other centers are within about 14 miles, the nearest of them under a mile away in Des Moines.

Prescriptions are usually kept going, and changing one is a decision for a prescriber rather than a policy. Stopping a psychiatric medication abruptly can cause real harm, which is why this is never a decision to make alone. Write the list with doses and prescriber names before the first call.

Outpatient programs are built around working hours precisely because most people cannot stop working. Intensive outpatient programs are commonly scheduled before work or in the evening precisely so people can stay employed. Read what your own policy says before you tell anybody anything.