Green River Medical Center

Green River Medical Center provides two structured levels of addiction treatment: medical detox and an outpatient program. For people beginning their recovery journey, medical detox offers a clinically supervised starting point — a necessary first step before transitioning into longer-term recovery work. The outpatient program then provides a framework for continued care, structured around regular sessions that people can attend while living at home.

This combination of services means the center can support people at different stages of the recovery process — from those who need medical support at the outset to those further along who need consistent, skills-based programming. The outpatient format is particularly well suited to people balancing work, family, or community obligations while maintaining their commitment to sobriety.

The outpatient program at Green River Medical Center uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as its therapeutic framework. CBT focuses on identifying the connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors — helping people in recovery recognize patterns that contribute to substance use and build practical strategies for responding differently over time.

For people in an outpatient setting, CBT is a particularly well-matched approach: it is structured, goal-oriented, and produces skills that people can apply in their daily lives outside of sessions. This makes it a practical tool for the kind of sustained, community-based recovery that outpatient programs are designed to support.

As a Federally Qualified Health Center, Green River Medical Center is built around the mission of providing affordable care regardless of a patient's financial situation. In the context of substance use treatment, this translates to an unusually broad range of accepted payment options — including Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, private insurance, state insurance, sliding-scale fees, and self-pay arrangements.

For individuals and families evaluating addiction treatment options in rural Utah, cost and insurance coverage are often significant barriers. Green River Medical Center's payment structure is designed to reduce those barriers, ensuring that people across different income levels and insurance situations can access the medical detox and outpatient recovery services they need.

Located in Green River in Emery County, Green River Medical Center fills an important gap in a part of Utah where substance abuse treatment resources are limited. The center's position as a Federally Qualified Health Center reinforces its role as a community anchor — a place where people seeking recovery support can access care through the same institution providing their broader primary health needs.

The center is open Monday through Friday from 7 AM to 5 PM. People interested in learning more about the outpatient program or medical detox services can reach the center by phone at (435) 564-3434, by email at [email protected], or through its website at grmedicalcenter.org.