Health Connect America

They are set up for 2 levels: outpatient and telemedicine. Of the 8 centers within 14 miles of Chattanooga, 1 offers a bed.

No. The nearest place that does offer one is in Chattanooga, 2.6 miles away.

They offer a program for people who are pregnant or just postpartum, which not every center around Chattanooga does.

They prescribe 1 medication: buprenorphine. What a provider actually stocks changes, so ask for the one you need by name before driving to Chattanooga.

They are outpatient. If someone needs to be away from where they are using, Chattanooga has the nearest beds, 2.6 miles away.

Yes. They treat people in Spanish. Confirm it for the first appointment specifically, because in Chattanooga that can depend on who is rostered that day.

There is usually a plan for afterwards, covering appointments, medication and somewhere to go each week. Where medication is part of the plan, the handover to a community prescriber is the gap to watch. Ask how the medication prescription continues after discharge, and who writes it.

What you pay depends more on insurance than on which center you choose. A quote is usually a daily rate times an expected length, so the cheaper number sometimes just buys fewer days. Ask what the daily rate becomes if coverage stops before the program does.