Eating Disorders Inpatient Unit

Location El Camino Hospital 2500 Grant Road Mountain View, CA 94040

Phone: (650) 498-4468

Comprehensive Care Program (CCP)

The Comprehensive Care Program (CCP) is a 15-bed inpatient unit that uses a multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of eating disorders. The unit is located on the 4th floor of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA. The program is a component of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital's Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program (CEDP).

Eating Disorder Inpatient Admissions and Treatment

Patients admitted to this unit are medically compromised as a result of their eating disorder. Admission is designed to:

• Treat medical disorders resulting from abnormal eating that may affect a patient’s heart, bones, liver, kidney, brain, reproductive system or other organs
• Prevent long-term and life threatening complications
• Evaluate and treat psychiatric disorders that often accompany eating disorders, such as:
  • Depression
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Anxiety

Patients usually stay at the CCP for a relatively brief period (10-20 days) and upon discharge continue treatment at our eating disorders outpatient services program.
 
Patients, families or referring health care providers can call the Eating Disorders Intake Coordinator at (650) 498-4468 to be admitted to the unit.
 
Inpatient treatments include:

• Diagnostic evaluation (both medical and psychiatric)
• Medical management to prevent or detect complications
• Nutritional assessment and management
• Growth and development evaluation
• Assessment and management of osteopenia and osteoporosis
• Psychiatric medication evaluation and monitoring
• Individual therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Interpersonal therapy
  • Psychodynamic therapy
  • Family-based therapy
• Coordination with the patient’s school
• Group and environment (milieu) treatment

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