Outpatient Services Added By Company

A company that has offered drug and alcohol treatment in the Lancaster area for more than a decade has added mental health and eating disorder services.

The programs - known respectively as Rehab After Work, The Light Program, and Seeds of Hope - are offered on an outpatient basis to adults and adolescents from facilities at 1725 Oregon Pike in Manheim Township.

The Light Program came to Lancaster about a year ago, and Seeds of Hope started just this month, according to Desireee Patton, a spokeswoman for the parent company, Pyramid Healthcare Inc., a for-profit firm with more than 70 centers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North Carolina.

Another service line called Life Counseling Services was added about six years ago, she said.

The programs share leadership and supervision, she said, with a total of seven clinicians at the Lancaster office.

The programs accept most commercial insurance but not Medicaid, she said.

Mental Health America of Lancaster County, a nonprofit that advocates for mental wellness, referred a question on the local need for outpatient mental health services to its administrative assistant, Barbara Perry.

In a written statement that said she is a mental health consumer, Perry wrote that there are not enough inpatient or outpatient services in the county.

"There are day programs around but many do not have the transportation to get to them," she wrote. "I also believe there is a lack of intensive day programs."

Credit: HSTAUFFER@LNPNEWS.COM