Guidance Care Center – Key West, Florida
1205 4th Street, Key West, Florida, 33040
Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Insurance
Payment Options
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
- State welfare or child and family services funds
- State corrections or juvenile justice funds
- State education agency funds
- Other State funds
- County or local government funds
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
- Federal Grants
- Private or Community foundation
- SAMHSA funding/block grants
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
Addiction Resource Score
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8.0
Out of 10
Guidance/Care Center, Inc. (GCC), at 1205 Fourth Street in Key West, offers comprehensive behavioral health services, including treatment for mental health illnesses and substance misuse. The hospital serves a wide range of ages, including adults, children, and families, with a focus on persons in crisis and those suffering from significant and persistent mental diseases. GCC works with no gender or faith-based restrictions, enabling equal access to care for all people, regardless of economic situation or background.
GCC provides a variety of programs, including detoxification, outpatient care, crisis stabilization, and a Personal Growth Center (PGC) with day treatment and support services. In addition, the center has a mobile crisis response team that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Cognitive behavioral therapy, anger management, group therapy, crisis intervention, psychiatric examinations, and medication management are among the available treatment options. Notably, GCC prioritizes crisis treatment and aggressively works to reduce unnecessary mental hospitalizations, as well as providing transportation assistance to improve access to its programs. The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) has accredited the facility, demonstrating its dedication to quality service delivery.
Treatment Options
The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:
- Mentoring/peer support
- Housing services
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:
- Alcohol Detoxification
- Opioids detoxification
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Screening for tobacco use
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
Treatment Modalities
- Individual psychotherapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
Conditions Treated
- Alcoholism
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Co-occurring Disorders
Levels Of Care
- Outpatient
- Outpatient detoxification
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Aftercare
License and Accreditation
- State mental health department
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
- SAMHSA certification for opioid treatment program (OTP)
- State department of health
Ancillary Services
- Case management service
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Integrated primary care services
- Suicide prevention services
- Early intervention for HIV
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
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