SierraVista Behavioral Healthcare is now open in Johnstown, Colorado, offering premier acute inpatient psychiatric services to adults throughout northern Colorado. Our facility provides comprehensive, short-term stabilization and psychiatric care for individuals experiencing acute mental health crises. SierraVista is part of the NewVista Health network, committed to delivering trauma-informed, evidence-based behavioral health treatment in a safe and healing environment. We are proud to serve the Johnstown community and the surrounding region with compassionate, clinically excellent psychiatric care.
Clients receive professional treatment and support from mental health experts in a compassionate and structured environment. They participate in therapeutic activities designed to promote healing, stability, and personal growth.
The facility serves voluntary adult clients 18 years and older. Clients are admitted regardless of race or national origin who are suffering from the effects of Mental Health who meet the facility's admission criteria. A Level of Care Assessment is used to determine appropriate placement.
The facility’s fundamental goal is to restore the individual to a healthier, happier, and more productive life, and prepare to re-enter the community.
Our Mission:
At SierraVista Behavioral Healthcare, our mission is to inspire hope and deliver holistic care to those in need of addiction services and mental health treatments in a contemporary and healing environment, one that is conducive to providing the life skills needed to regain stability and independence, utilizing a passionate and highly trained team of professionals.
Our Vision:
To be known as the premier provider of addiction and behavioral health services in the region, one that others look to as the lighthouse of excellence.
We are committed to producing the highest level of clinical outcomes for clients and their families. SierraVista Behavioral Healthcare is a trauma-informed, non-coercive treatment program designed to treat individuals struggling with substance use disorder and mental health symptoms.
These are the core concepts that extend into many areas of a client’s life and help develop the foundations for recovery and recovery sustainability.
SierraVista Behavioral Healthcare provides individualized treatment to all clients admitted to our programs. Evidence based therapies used include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Life Skills Training and Trauma Informed Care. A wide variety of treatment modalities are used. The following treatment modalities apply to all core programs.
Employed for all clients. The approach is usually intensive, brief, and problem-specific, with short-term goals such as resolving a problem, making a decision, carrying out a procrastinated act, or reducing the effects of a symptom.
Focused group counseling session, which deals with issues identified by either clients or counselors. Emphasis is on emotional and behavioral issues, which affect clients with mental illness. Topics including identifying personal triggers, developing strategies to avoid triggers, improving and utilizing support systems, stress management, coping skills, anxiety, anger, self esteem, and communication. Individuals will be given homework assignments as well as group assignments to improve the ability to deal with challenging situations.
Designed to assist family members and clients in reorienting and restructuring relationship systems. This component involves family members in an education program, as well as counseling sessions. These sessions are supportive experiences providing opportunities to share and question aspects of the client’s care relative to family interaction and/or intervention of the client’s illness. The goal of the Family Program is to provide the family with opportunities to increase understanding and knowledge regarding mental illness, and to be assisted in enhancement of client and family stress management, communication, and leisure time skills. Client family members attend the Family Program during the client’s treatment stay.
The course of treatment has 2 distinct phases of care; the initial phase; Crisis Care Phase and the subsequent phase; the Treatment Phase. Progression through these phases is individual for each client and their needs.
The Treatment Plan provides the road map for which goals are agreed upon with the client and the treatment team. Treatment plans are individualized and specific to each client’s needs and desired goals. Individual work is assigned to each client. This independent work allows for continued work toward goals outside of the treatment groups and sessions. Treatment plans are reviewed with clients weekly and treatment goals are revised as needed.
An interdisciplinary team is involved in the daily treatment of our clients. Treatment team meets weekly and discusses client goals and treatment expectations.
A Psychiatric provider will complete a psychiatric evaluation to determine psychiatric diagnoses. Weekly rounds are completed by the psychiatrist (or his/her designee) along with frequent treatment teams to evaluate the progression of the client towards their treatment goals.
The Medical Provider completes a thorough client physical, including a comprehensive review of current medication. Collaborates with the attending provider on any medical issues that may contribute/impact their care.
Provide clinical assessments and group therapy and individual work with clients utilizing the evidenced based curriculum. The clinician will coordinate the completion of the multidisciplinary treatment plan. They will assist the client to create, implement and practice their Individualized Wellness Recovery Plan to maintain reduction in symptoms and enhance the quality of life. Assures all discharge care responsibilities are completed. They coordinate all communication with collateral entities for aftercare planning.
The milieu staff’s role is to monitor the client’s medical condition and behavior, provide safety and structure, and assure the implementation of the daily program.