Chestnut Health Systems Inc

About Chestnut Health Systems Inc

Chestnut Health Systems is a Bloomington, Illinois–based behavioral health and community health organization that has provided addiction treatment for adults for more than 40 years, alongside mental health care, primary care, and dental services across Illinois and Missouri. They see addiction as a chronic but treatable condition that often overlaps with mental illness, so their programs address both together and aim to place each person in the least restrictive setting that fits their needs. Care options include medically monitored detox, ambulatory withdrawal management, residential treatment, intensive outpatient, standard outpatient, and medication-assisted treatment, with outpatient services also available for adolescents. They accept insurance, offer sliding fee discounts, and provide walk-in assessments.

Every treatment plan starts with a full assessment, and length of stay depends on each person’s progress rather than a fixed timeline. Residential clients receive 24-hour supervision and work with licensed counselors in individual, group, and family sessions, building skills in decision-making, stress management, coping, and relapse prevention while planning their continuing care. Treatment is gender-specific so men and women can explore issues like relationships, parenting, and anger in a safer space, and the MAT program pairs medication with counseling for people dependent on heroin or prescription painkillers. Families are encouraged to take part through a program focused on understanding addiction, spotting relapse, and communicating better, and psychiatric care, a crisis stabilization unit, and research through their Lighthouse Institute round out the services.