Tucked away from the cross-town traffic, off Fulton Road in West Santa Rosa, is a dedicated mental health hospital and Outpatient Program Center situated on 10 grassy, tree-lined acres.
Since 2013, when Aurora Santa Rosa [ASR] opened, the facility has offered a full range of mental health services including 95 available beds for those in need. Thirty-eight of those beds are dedicated to adolescent-only units.
This is a very nice facility. CEO, Susan Rose, has been at Aurora since 2015. She is a detail-oriented executive with a keen and watchful eye on her operations.The hospital ambiance is warm while also being clean, simple and functional.
On a tour of the facility, you see in the patient units long chalkboard walls with positive, thoughtful comments and upbeat artwork. The Art Therapy room walls are covered with patient artwork reflecting their individual work and exercises. Morning, afternoon and evening programs are offered; gym time, outdoor time; rest time.
Class rooms are filled with groups run by skilled and licensed staff covering topics from Substance Abuse to Medication Management.
The Outpatient Programs side has the relaxing feel of rooms made for work on oneself: an open-door lounge, a small kitchen for snacks, classrooms for more clinical-sounding programs like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT], Dialectical Behavioral Therapy [DBT] and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy [CBT].
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