Day-to-Day Living

When you arrive at St. Helena Recovery Center, you’ll immediately experience the benefits of a safe, nurturing and healing environment. Removed from everyday stressors and responsibilities, you’ll prepare for your recovery by undergoing an initial medical assessment with our experienced multidisciplinary team. We establish an individualized care and personalized treatment plan that is designed to meet your needs. Based on your progress, we will continually reassess and modifiy your treatment plan.

Following assessment and possible medically-supervised detox, you’ll find that your daily schedule will be consistent. Generally, your schedule may look like the following:

• 6:30 AM Wake-Up
• 6:45 AM Stretch & Walk
• 7:45 AM Breakfast
• 8:15-8:45 AM Check-in
• 8:45-9:00 AM Spiritual Emphasis
• 9:15-9:45 AM Community Meeting
• 10:00-10:45 AM Featured Educational Presentation
• 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Group Therapy
• 12:00 PM Lunch
• 12:45 PM Medallion Ceremony
• 1:30 PM Featured Educational Presentation
• 2:15 PM Recovery Story
• 3:00-4:45 PM Men’s/Women’s Fitness & Yoga
• 5:15 PM Dinner
• 5:45 PM Free Time
• 6:00 PM-9:00 PM 12-Step AA/NA Meetings, Meditation

What to Bring (suggested items):

• Alarm clock and watch
• Warm jacket
• Umbrella and rain gear (seasonal)
• Casual clothing for one week
• Modest swim suit (for sauna) or swimming excursions
• Gym clothes
• Walking shoes
• Pens, pencils, stamps
• Toiletries (unscented)
• 30-day supply of your routine medications in their original containers
• ALL insurance and prescription cards and identification
• Credit card or checkbook for co-pays or non-covered services
• Tote bag or backpack
• Pillow (optional)
• 1 packed overnight bag of clean clothes in addition to your luggage
• Laundry soap (the hospital provides hospital grade laundry soap)
• Snacks
• Leisure time items (books, playing cards, etc.)
• Sunscreen
• Hat
• Flashlight
• Gym locker lock

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What Not to Bring:

St. Helena Hospital maintains a tobacco-free campus. However, we do have a designated area available for our recovery clients. We can make nicotine patches and lozenges available. Because we care about your health, we highly recomend you take advantage of our tobacco cessation program which has a one year success rate, one of the highest tobacco free rates world wide.

• Televisions
• DVD players
• Pagers
• Cameras
• Caffeinated beverages
• Clothing with drug or alcohol advertising
• Pornographic Material
• Valuable jewelry and other belongings
• Fragranced products (e.g. toiletries)
• Products containing alcohol (e.g. mouthwash)
• Immodest or provacative clothing

We highly advise that you make arrangements for a family or friend to drive you to our facility due to limited availability of parking spaces. If you must drive yourself, please arrange for someone to remove your vehicle from the premises as soon as possible.

We recommend that you leave valuable jewelry or other items of value at home No fragranced products of any kind may be used. This includes hair products lotions, perfumes, aftershave, etc.

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