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About San Juan Capestrano Hospital
At San Juan Capestrano Hospital, recovery begins with connection, compassion, and skilled care tailored to each client’s needs. Offering inpatient care, day treatment (PHP), and outpatient services across Puerto Rico, they help teens, adults, and seniors overcome mental health and addiction challenges. Through therapy, skill-building activities, and family support, each program helps clients rebuild daily habits and a sense of stability, preparing them to heal and thrive within their communities.
Staff at San Juan Capestrano celebrate client strengths by setting personal goals, highlighting achievements, and encouraging new coping strategies that help individuals overcome emotional distress and substance use. Their approach includes medically supervised detox, medication management with psychiatric providers, and frequent individual and group therapy sessions. Family therapy supports healing relationships, while additional services like psychoeducation, relaxation techniques, and crisis management promote lasting recovery.
Client rooms at San Juan Capestrano Hospital are designed for comfort and safety, offering space for personal belongings and a desk to encourage reflection. Beach murals bring a calming, coastal spirit to shared spaces, inspiring connection and peace. Clients can stay energized with basketball and ping pong or find renewal outdoors by the swimming pool, under gazebos, or along peaceful walking paths.
San Juan Capestrano understands that healing continues well beyond a client’s time in inpatient care. Discharge planning starts at admission, connecting clients to services like day treatment (PHP) and outpatient programs at the hospital and community-based therapy across Puerto Rico. These options offer ongoing support and structure, helping individuals maintain progress and confidently take the next steps toward long-term healing.
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Insurance Accepted
Provider's Policy:Please call our admissions team for more information on insurance coverage. A knowledgeable member of our team can answer any financial questions you might have, and they can also reach out directly to your insurance carrier to verify and maximize your benefits. This service is free and puts you under no obligation to choose our programming.
San Juan Capestrano provides a safe place for healing when life feels overwhelming. Their team focuses on helping individuals who self-harm find stability through supportive care, therapeutic activities, and structured routines. By teaching healthy coping methods and rebuilding a sense of hope, the program helps clients take steps toward safety, strength, and a renewed future.
Adolescents regain stability and confidence through therapeutic support that encourages emotional healing, stronger relationships, and personal growth at San Juan Capestrano. With family sessions, skill-building groups, and attentive medication management, teens strengthen communication skills and emotional resilience. A structured environment with recreational spaces encourages connection and healing, preparing teens to thrive beyond treatment.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) at San Juan Capestrano Hospital offers rapid symptom relief for a wide range of mental health conditions and serves as a safe alternative to medication. Clients can access ECT during both inpatient and outpatient treatment. It is most effective when used alongside other therapies, particularly for individuals with treatment-resistant conditions.
San Juan Capestrano helps clients break free from addiction by providing peaceful, supervised spaces designed for privacy, safety, and rest during detoxification. Their program supports physical well-being through nutrition, occupational therapy, recreation therapy, and physical strengthening. Group therapy, psychiatrist sessions, and 12-Step meetings foster community and the development of healthy behaviors for lasting recovery.
Older Adults
Addiction and mental health treatment caters to adults 55+ and the age-specific challenges that can come with recovery, wellness, and overall happiness.
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Self-Harm
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
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Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
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Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
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Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
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Medical
Medical addiction treatment uses approved medications to manage withdrawals and cravings, and to treat contributing mental health conditions.
Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
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1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
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Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
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Nutrition Counseling
Nutritious food helps patients heal from within, setting them up for mental and bodily wellness as they learn about healthy eating.
Recreation Therapy
In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.
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Twelve Step Facilitation
12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders destabilize the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. If untreated, they can undermine relationships and lead to severe distress.
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
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Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
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Self-Harm
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
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Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
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Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
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Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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Co-Occurring Disorders
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
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Cocaine
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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Heroin
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Prescription Drugs
It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.
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Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs are made in a lab, unlike plant-based drugs like mushrooms. Most synthetic drugs are either stimulants or synthetic cannabinoids.
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