PHP-level care for Pompano Beach — inpatient density, your home at night.

For Pompano Beach clients, RECO's Delray Beach campus is 18 miles up I-95 — close enough for family sessions on a Friday afternoon, far enough to create real clinical separation from the bars, dealer contacts, and social patterns tied to neighborhoods like Cresthaven and Hillsboro Shores. PHP here runs 30+ hours weekly with psychiatry, MAT options including buprenorphine and Vivitrol, and a structured daily rhythm matched to ASAM criteria rather than a calendar template.

From Pompano Beach, RECO’s Delray Beach campus sits 18 miles up I-95 — roughly 28 minutes outside the worst of rush hour, longer if you leave Cresthaven during the morning crawl past Atlantic Boulevard. For families weighing partial hospitalization for someone they love, that distance matters more than it looks on a map. It is far enough that the daily commute to treatment carves real clinical separation from the bars, the dealer’s number, and the friend group that has been part of the using pattern, but close enough that a parent in Lighthouse Point or a spouse in Sea Ranch Lakes can still be at a Friday family session before dinner. Partial hospitalization is the most clinically dense level of outpatient care, and for the right Pompano Beach client, doing it at a program one exit north — rather than walking past the same triggers every afternoon — is part of why the level of care works.

What partial hospitalization actually provides

A partial hospitalization program, or PHP, is the most intensive level of outpatient addiction care defined under the ASAM continuum. At RECO, that means a minimum of 30 clinical hours per week, Monday through Friday, structured into a coherent daily schedule rather than scattered appointments across the calendar. The clinical day includes psychiatry, individual therapy, and evidence-based group programming — cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, EMDR for trauma where indicated, and Trauma-Focused CBT for clients carrying PTSD alongside substance use disorder.

For appropriately selected clients — meaning those who meet PHP criteria on ASAM Dimensions 1 through 6 and have a stable, recovery-supportive environment to return to at night — PHP outcomes are clinically comparable to residential treatment. The difference is autonomy: clients sleep in their own bed, in sober living, or with family, instead of on a treatment unit. That sounds like a small distinction. In practice it changes how skills generalize back into daily life, because clients are practicing recovery in the same environment they will live it in once treatment ends.

Who steps down into PHP

The most common pathway into PHP at RECO is stepping down from residential treatment after three to four weeks of 24-hour care. Residential stabilizes the acute withdrawal, the early cravings, the medication titration — buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, naltrexone or its long-acting injectable Vivitrol for both opioid and alcohol use disorder, acamprosate for alcohol — and PHP carries the clinical work forward at almost the same density without the locked door.

A second pathway is stepping up from intensive outpatient. IOP runs around 9 to 15 clinical hours per week, which is the right dose for many clients but not enough for someone who has relapsed at the lower level of care, or whose co-occurring depression, anxiety, or trauma symptoms are interfering with engagement. The clinical team will sometimes recommend a temporary step up to PHP to restabilize, then a step back down to IOP once the acute period has passed.

A third group enters PHP directly from the community — a Pompano Beach client whose use has escalated to the point where weekly outpatient is clearly not enough, but who does not medically require inpatient detox or 24-hour monitoring. Intake assessments here, scored against ASAM criteria, are what determine which pathway fits. The level-of-care recommendation is clinical, not a sales pitch.

What the evidence base looks like

Partial hospitalization for substance use disorders has decades of outcome research behind it. The consistent finding across studies is that, for clients who meet PHP-level severity criteria and who have a stable overnight environment, PHP produces outcomes comparable to inpatient or residential treatment on the measures that matter — sustained abstinence at six and twelve months, reduction in psychiatric symptoms, return to work or school, and reduced acute-care utilization.

The key moderating variable in that research is housing. When the place a client sleeps is supportive of recovery — a structured sober-living residence, a family home where everyone is on the same page, or a partner who is not actively using — PHP delivers inpatient-level results without inpatient cost or the disruption of being away from family and work for a month. When the overnight environment is chaotic, unsafe, or saturated with use cues, the clinical team will typically recommend residential first, then step down. This is one reason RECO works closely with a vetted sober-living network for clients whose home environment is not recovery-supportive.

What a PHP day looks like at RECO

A typical PHP day begins mid-morning with a community check-in and a process group. Morning programming runs through to a midday meal taken together — that shared meal is not incidental, it is part of the clinical rhythm. Afternoons rotate through skills groups (CBT and DBT skills are core), experiential work (art therapy, music therapy, trauma-informed movement), and process groups that go deeper than the morning check-in.

Individual sessions with a primary therapist are scheduled at least weekly and often twice weekly during the PHP phase. Psychiatry appointments — for medication management of co-occurring disorders and for MAT decisions around buprenorphine, naltrexone, or acamprosate — are scheduled as clinically indicated, typically at intake, two weeks in, and then monthly. Family therapy is built in for clients whose family system is part of the treatment picture, and many Pompano Beach families have Friday afternoon sessions on the calendar before they ever finish week one.

The structure is intentional. Thirty hours of clinical time delivered as a coherent daily rhythm produces different outcomes than the same hours scattered across appointments at three different offices. The daily container is part of what makes PHP work.

Insurance, getting started, and the local proof points

Most major commercial insurance plans cover PHP at RECO — Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, United, and most Florida Blue plans among them. Insurance verification is a same-day process: a benefits specialist runs the plan, confirms PHP coverage, identifies any prior-authorization requirements, and walks the client or family member through what out-of-pocket cost, if any, will look like before anyone commits to admission. There is no surprise billing on the back end of this process.

For a Pompano Beach family, the practical questions are usually about logistics. Transportation from Cresthaven, Lighthouse Point, Hillsboro Shores, or Sea Ranch Lakes to the Delray campus is straightforward — RECO can arrange transport for clients who need it during the PHP phase, and many clients drive themselves once the early phase has stabilized. Length of treatment in PHP is typically four to six weeks, after which most clients step down to IOP and eventually to aftercare and alumni programming — a continuum, not a single episode of care. For clients with alcohol or opioid use disorder specifically, the deeper clinical detail on medications, withdrawal management, and modality fit is laid out on the alcohol and opioid treatment pages. To begin, call (866) 396-2008 and ask for a clinical intake — the conversation will tell you whether PHP is the right level of care before anyone schedules anything.

Serving residents of: Cresthaven, Lighthouse Point, Sea Ranch Lakes, Hillsboro Shores.