Princeton House Telehealth Program Receives Program Of The Year Award

Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health’s telehealth intensive outpatient (IOP) program was named Program of the Year by the Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare, a national organization representing outpatient providers.

Princeton House, which offers IOP and partial hospital programs in addition to inpatient services, was forced to close in-person outpatient services as a safety precaution during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in early March 2020. Within nine days of closing, 250 staff members and 600 consumers, ranging from 6-year-olds to older adults, were transitioned to a newly developed IOP program that included psychiatric evaluation, medication management . . .