Cecil Miller, UPMC Chautauqua vice president of operations, said patients will start to be seen at the new treatment facility Wednesday, July 17.

The $1.5 million project was made possible with the assistance of a $700,000 grant from the state Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services. Also, the hospital received $150,000 from a local foundation.

The new 20-bed, long-term residential addiction services program will be located at UPMC Chautauqua’s Jones Memorial Health Center, located at 51 Glasgow Ave.

In January, Diana Porebski, UPMC Chautauqua chemical dependency and outpatient behavioral health services director, told The Post-Journal the addiction services facility will be the first long-term residential addiction services program in the county. She said the closest long-term rehab facility is Cazenovia Recovery Systems in Buffalo.

A work out area for patients in the future long-term residential addiction services program at UPMC Chautauqua’s Jones Memorial Health Center, located at 51 Glasgow Ave., Jamestown. The new 20-bed long-term residential addiction services program will be the first of its kind in Chautauqua County. P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

The addiction treatment facility is a more extended stay than what is currently offered in the Jamestown area, Porebski said.

There will be three phases to the program. She said the first phases is stabilization, which is an acute, short term stay of 1-14 days or a few weeks. The second phase is long-term, which could be a stay for up to a whole year. The third phase is community reintegration.

Porebski said during the community reintegration phase patients can go off site to look for jobs and housing.

The program will be located on the fourth floor of Jones Memorial. There will be two wings of bedrooms, with an options for one bed or two. There will also be a kitchen where people can learn life skills like cooking.

The facility will also include a meditation and yoga room, group/education base room, a creative spaces room and a lounge.

The patients will also have access to a modern workout room with treadmills, exercise bikes and weight lifting equipment. Jones Memorial also has 19 acres of green space outdoors that patients can enjoy. Because of the outdoor area, UPMC Chautauqua officials are planning on have a horticulture space so the patients can garden if they would like.

NEW EMERGENCY ROOM ENTRANCE

Along with the new two-floor addition that includes a state-of-the-art women’s and maternity care center and an adolescent and adult mental health inpatient units there is also a new emergency room entrance. Miller said the entrance at UPMC Chautauqua’s Foote Avenue facility is now undercover so emergency personnel don’t have to worry about the weather. He also said the entrance also has a heated cement area that will melt away ice and snow during the winter.

“It is back to the way it used to be,” Miller said about how the emergency department entrance had relocated during the addition project.