Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
 
DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS

Family Center

Karol Kaltenbach, PhD
Director
Phone: 215-955-8577

Provides comprehensive treatment services for substance abusing pregnant and parenting women and their children in outpatient and residential settings. Family Center provides intensive outpatient treatment services and My Sister’s Place provides long-term residential treatment. Services include individual, group, and family therapy, obstetrical care and parent-child services. Facilities include on-site methadone maintenance treatment and inpatient stabilization for opiate-addicted patients. Pregnant women should be referred to the program as early in the pregnancy as possible. Infants who exhibit withdrawal are treated as inpatients on the Newborn Nursery Service.