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:
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