rehabCommunity Health Connections
Fitchburg, MA
Addiction treatment
Community Health Connections
Fitchburg Community Health Center
Community Health Connections provides addiction treatment in Fitchburg, MA, with outpatient services. People seeking care can access cognitive behavioral therapy, individual counseling, and group counseling. Payment options include private health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and self-payment.
326 Nichols Road, Fitchburg, MA, 01420
Services & treatment options
Treatment
Type of Care
- Substance use treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
Care setting
- Outpatient
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
- Buprenorphine used in Treatment
- Naltrexone used in Treatment
External Opioid Medications Source
- In-network prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
- Buprenorphine maintenance
- Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
- Prescribes buprenorphine
- Prescribes naltrexone
- Relapse prevention with naltrexone
Pharmacotherapies
- Acamprosate (Campral®)
- Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
- Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Buprenorphine without naloxone
- Clonidine
- Disulfiram
- Lofexidine
- Medication for mental disorders
- Medications for HIV treatment
- Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
- Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
- Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
- Naltrexone (oral)
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
Treatment Approaches
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Community reinforcement plus vouchers
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Trauma-related counseling
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Complete medical history/physical exam
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Professional interventionist/educational consultant
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- HIV testing
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- STD testing
- TB screening
- Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
- Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Medical Services
- Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
- Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
Age Groups Accepted
- Adults
- Seniors
Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
Payment & insurance
Payment and insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Private health insurance
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
Payment Assistance Available
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
Support services
Transitional Services
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
Recovery Support Services
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Housing services
- Mentoring/peer support
- Recovery coach
- Self-help groups
Other Services
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
Education and Counseling Services
- Family counseling
- Group counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Individual counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Substance use disorder education
Language Services
- Other languages (excluding Spanish)
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Spanish
Other Languages
- Portuguese
Ancillary Services
- Acupuncture
- Case management service
- Early intervention for HIV
- Integrated primary care services
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Transportation assistance
About the center
Facility operation
- Private non-profit organization
License/Certification/Accreditation
- Federally Qualified Health Center
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- State Substance use treatment agency
- State department of health
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking not permitted
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping not permitted