Gaudenzia Inc in Philadelphia, PA
Washington House
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.
Anger management
Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.
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.).
No formal relationship with prescribing entity
Other contracted prescribing entity
Brief intervention
A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.
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.
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
An independent non-profit accreditor of health and human services.
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.
Case management service
Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.
Contingency management/motivational incentives
A treatment approach for drug and alcohol use. This approach uses a positive-reinforcement treatment method in which patients are given rewards for constructive actions taken toward their recovery.
Drug or alcohol urine screening
Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.
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.
Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse.
Female
Female
Group counseling
Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.
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
Transitional housing, halfway house, or sober home
Housing for individuals recovering from substance abuse that is designed to provide a drug and alcohol-free living environment and appropriate support services to facilitate movement to independent living. Such housing includes transitional living, sober houses, sober living, recovery houses, and 3/4 houses.
HIV testing
Determines whether you are infected with HIV, a virus that weakens the immune system and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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.
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.
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.
Medication for mental disorders
Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
Naloxone and overdose education
Naltrexone used in Treatment
Outcome follow-up after discharge
No formal relationship with prescribing entity
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
Long-term residential
Other contracted prescribing entity
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.
Smoking permitted in designated area
A designated area in which smoking is permitted.
Seniors
Facility accepts seniors (65 or older) for treatment.
Suicide prevention services
Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.
Social skills development
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.
Trauma-related counseling
Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).
Clients who have experienced trauma
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced trauma.
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.
Prescribes buprenorphine
Vaping not permitted
Adult women
Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult women.
Contact and Location
1516 Washington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19146
Phone: 215-985-1200