Saint Josephs Medical Center in Brainerd, MN
Essentia Health Focus Unit
About This Facility
Directory information from SAMHSA N-SUMHSS 2025. This listing is not an endorsement or independent verification. Confirm current services, eligibility, and availability directly with the facility.
Services Listed in the Directory
Aftercare/continuing care
Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
Adults
Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.
Assistance with obtaining social services
Assistance obtaining government services provided for the benefit of the community designed to promote social well being (i.e. education, medical care, housing, etc.).
Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.
In-network prescribing entity
No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.
Buprenorphine used in Treatment
Buprenorphine is used in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to help people reduce or quit their use of heroin or other opiates.
Buprenorphine maintenance
Buprenorphine with naloxone
A prescription medication that combines buprenorphine (which helps relieve symptoms of opiate withdrawal) and naloxone (reverse the effects of narcotics) used to treat opioid addiction.
Cash or self-payment
Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.
Clonidine
Comprehensive substance use assessment
Drug or alcohol urine screening
Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.
Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
Discharge Planning
A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.
Family counseling
A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.
Female
Female
Group counseling
Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.
General Hospital (including VA hospital)
A hospital in which patients with many different types of ailments are given care.
HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
Access to education, counseling, and support groups to ‘at risk’ individuals and also individuals who have been infected with the virus.
Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
Involves blood test that measure HBV (Hepatitis B virus) antigens and antibodies.
Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Test for Hepatitis C, which is usually done and recommended for persons currently injecting drugs, ever injected drugs, were prior recipients of transfusions or organ transplants, or have certain medical conditions, including persons: 1. who received clotting factor concentrates produced before 1987 2. who were ever on long-term hemodialysis 3. with persistently abnormal alanine aminotransferase levels (ALT) 4. who have HIV infection
Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
Any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.
Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
Medical treatment that is provided in a hospital or other facility and requires at least one overnight stay.
Hospital inpatient treatment
HIV testing
Determines whether you are infected with HIV, a virus that weakens the immune system and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Hospital licensing authority
Housing services
Are designed to assist individuals with finding and maintaining appropriate housing arrangements.
Individual counseling
Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.
In-network prescribing entity
Intensive outpatient treatment
The Joint Commission
An independent, not-for-profit group in the United States that administers voluntary accreditation programs for hospitals and other healthcare organizations.
Male
Male
Medicare
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.
Medicaid
A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.
Medications for HIV treatment
Mental health services
Assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.
Motivational interviewing
A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.
Medication for mental disorders
Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
Naloxone and overdose education
Nicotine replacement
Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.
Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
Medications that do not contain nicotine but are designed to reduce a person's craving for tobacco. Some common examples are Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin) and Nortriptyline (Pamelor). Medications are often prescribed in conjunction with counseling or support groups to provide the best chance for achieving long-term smoking abstinence. (http://www.mayoclinic.com)
Naltrexone used in Treatment
Naltrexone (oral)
Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
Regular outpatient treatment
Mentoring/peer support
Private health insurance
This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
Private non-profit organization
A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.
Relapse prevention
A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.
Residential/24-hour residential
Relapse prevention with naltrexone
Program or group specifically tailored for relapse prevention from Naltrexone which helps people retrain their minds and behaviors to avoid alcohol as a solution to emotional or psychological triggers.
Short-term residential
Substance use treatment
Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).
Substance use disorder counseling
A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.
Substance use disorder education
Self-help groups
Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.
State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
Smoking not permitted
Smoking is not allowed.
State substance use treatment agency
Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.
Social skills development
Screening for substance use
Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.
State department of health
STD testing
Testing to determine the type of sexually transmitted disease a person may be carrying.
Screening for tobacco use
Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.
Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Refers to treatment services intended to help their clients’ ability to function as a result of substance use and/or mental disorders. By definition, serious mental illness is someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. For people under the age of 18, the term ‟Serious Emotional Disturbance” refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in the past year, which resulted in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities.
Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
Provides education, counseling, and guidance and support for individuals who are at risk for or potentially infected with the hepatitis virus.
TB screening
Skin tests that are used to screen people who are at high risk for TB exposure such as people with diseases or conditions that weaken their immune system.
Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.
Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
12-step facilitation
A 12-step program is a support group made up of people who share the same addiction. The 12 steps refer to the steps recovering addicts must take to overcome their addiction as part of this program. Attendees at group meetings share their experiences, challenges, successes and failures, and provide peer support for each other.
Vaping not permitted
Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
Young Adults
Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.
Contact and Location
523 North 3rd Street, Brainerd, MN, 56401
Phone: 218-828-7374