Medical Wellness Center
Just south of D.C, Dominion Hospital in Falls Church treats children 5+, adolescents, and adults with mental health disorders at their 116-bed facility, as well as eating disorders and co-occurring substance use. Conditions they treat in all clients include anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, panic attacks, trauma, PTSD, self-harm, psychosis, catatonia, anorexia nervosa, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, other specified feeding and eating disorders (OSFED), and alcohol and drug addiction. For adolescents, they also discuss family conflict, emotional regulation, gender dysphoria, school-related anxiety, school avoidance, self-esteem, and body issues.
They use multiple therapies as needed for clients, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), pet therapy, expressive arts, music therapy, nutrition counseling, psychoeducation, electric convulsive therapy (ECT), medication management, and exposure therapy. Their pet therapy takes place on the weekends. Their staff reports that their expressive and music therapies are popular.
Dominion Hospital’s residential, day, and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs include personalized care grounded in the beliefs that humans can change, that family and social support are important to recovery, that evidence-based treatments are important, and that they should provide trauma-informed care. They make sure to use clients’ preferred pronouns.
They residential program uses daily goal planning, several group therapy meetings, and a personalized mix of additional therapies. Clients can place a limited number of calls and see visitors at pre-determined times.
Dominion Hospital’s program tracks for adults are standard day treatment, standard intensive outpatient (IOP) treatment, women-specific day treatment, complex trauma day treatment, women-specific IOP, eating disorder day treatment, and eating disorder IOP. The standard day and IOP tracks include dual diagnosis treatment for clients with a co-occurring substance use issue and trauma-specific therapy using their TraumaSci plan. The women-specific day treatment includes care for women who are pregnant or have given birth in the past year.
Their adolescent tracks are standard day treatment, standard IOP, school refusal-informed day treatment, eating disorder day treatment, and eating disorder IOP.
For children 5+, they offer a day treatment track. For children 9+, additional options are an eating disorder day treatment and an eating disorder IOP.
Depending on the program, the meetings take place either at the main Dominion Hospital building, their Chantilly campus, or the Reston Hospital Center.
Dominion Hospital can make referrals for less intensive outpatient care at other organizations.
Dominion Hospital uses MyHealthONE for clients to see their care notes during and after treatment. MyHealthONE is accessible on their website or the MyHealthONE smartphone app.
