Day Treatment

Once discharged from the hospital, our patients are transitioned (or "stepped down") to a less intensive, but still very structured, level of care: the Kartini Day Treatment Unit. Patients spend four days per week in the DTU, between seven and ten hours per day. During this course of treatment many of our patient and their families stay overnight at the Ronald McDonald House during the week and on weekends. Please be advised that Ronald McDonald House only accepts patients under 18 years of age.

Good candidates for this program are boys or girls ages 6-21 who have either restricting eating disorder or who have the binge/purge variant of anorexia. Children or teens with behavior problems or severe psychiatric diagnoses are not appropriate for this less structured environment. In the Day Treatment Unit we have family therapy, group therapy, nutrition class, yoga, dance, massage therapy, art therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy and school during the school year. Patients are divided by age, with those 6 to 16 years of age going into the children and adolescents group and those 17 to 21 years of age into the young adults group. Patients may be further divided into groups according to diagnosis, where appropriate and at the discretion of the medical director.