Locations

Rochester Treatment Center

Lake Orion Treatment Center, Lake Orion, MI

Guest House currently treats priests, deacons, religious and seminarians in three different facilities located in Minnesota, Michigan, and Mangalore, India.

Priests, deacons, and male religious are cared for at Guest House's center in Rochester, Minnesota (opened in 1969) where the organization enjoys a working relationship with the Mayo Clinic.

In Lake Orion, Michigan, women religious receive services in a new, state-of-the-art center opened in 2007 and designed especially for sisters with ambulatory issues. Between the years of 1994 and 2007, women religious were cared for on the same campus but at the Scripps mansion.

Guest House's annual graduates join nearly 2,300 living alumni worldwide, and are among the more than 7,500 cared for since 1956. Over 2,000 are still serving the Church as pastors, teachers, counselors, and missionaries. Guest House alumni enjoy a life-time recovery rate of at least 75% - which is a much higher percentage rate than their lay counterparts - and remain in ministry for an average of 20 or more years after treatment. Patients come from 165 Dioceses and 120 religious communities throughout the United States and 48 other countries.

As part of its principal mission, each year Guest House admits up to 125 priests, deacons, brothers, sisters and seminarians to either of its two licensed, CARF-accredited treatment centers. There, each client remains for a minimum 90 days of intensive counseling, education, medical and nutritional support, fellowship, recreation and spiritual renewal and growth. In recent years, Guest House has expanded its services to include diagnosis and care of religious with eating and gambling/spending compulsions.

Guest House's programs have expanded from its original concentration on alcoholism and other chemical addictions (such as to prescription drugs), to include care for religious with eating disorders and gambling/spending compulsions. All residents also participate inAlcoholics Anonymous or other appropriate "12-step" programs.

Following their in-patient care, clients are also enrolled in "Continuing Care," a 21-month program centered on three, week-long return visits by the client to the center where they received treatment. In Continuing Care, there is additional counseling, education, fellowship and time for more spiritual renewal.