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Rogers Memorial Hospital recognizes 2011 OCD Awareness Week

Rogers’ patients and families can rest assured knowing that the clinicians on each of our treatment teams stay current with the latest advances in treating OCD through direct training from national leaders within the OCD treatment community.

The Rogers Center for Research and Training brings national leaders in treatment and research to Wisconsin throughout the year to train and interact with the treatment teams at many of the hospital’s unique residential centers. Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD, is the latest of such distinguished leaders to visit.

Abramowitz is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, as well as a professor and associate chair of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He is also the author of “Getting Over OCD,” an award winning OCD self-help manual.

“Meeting and learning directly from leaders like Dr. Abramowitz provides additional tools to Rogers’ clinicians. Having more tools means that they have a more detailed understanding of a patient’s situation, and therefore can develop a very targeted treatment plan that specifically addresses each person’s needs.” explained Bradley C. Riemann, PhD, clinical director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Center and cognitive-behavioral treatment services.

Under Riemann’s leadership, Rogers has become a national leader in the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT for short, to treat OCD and other anxiety disorders in children, teens and adults. Across Rogers’ treatment programs for OCD, experienced treatment teams use a CBT-based approach that emphasizes exposure and ritual prevention as the foundation of treatment.

“At Rogers, we often see children and teens with really complicated diagnoses of OCD,” said David Jacobi, PhD, clinical supervisor of cognitive-behavioral treatment services at the Child & Adolescent centers, “Having access to this level of expertise helps us develop a treatment plan that gets a patient back on track all the sooner.”

CBT is a component of treatment at the child and adolescent centers, Eating Disorder Center and OCD Center, as well as at many of Rogers’ additional residential, inpatient and day treatment programs.

Bringing in experts like Abramowitz from all over the country to our treatment centers means that Rogers’ patients get the highest quality care.

OCD Awareness Week is presented by the International OCD Foundation as a vehicle for support, advocacy and education to help end the stigma surrounding OCD and encourage sufferers to identify the disorder and/or seek treatment.

Consider calling for a free screening or requesting one online as part of OCD Awareness Week, Oct. 10 through 16, 2011. 

$100,000 donation set for children’s treatment center at Rogers

Oconomowoc - Craig and Mary Schiefelbein donated $100,000 to the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation, which the organization will put toward the development of a new, stand-alone residential center for children and adolescents on the hospital's Village of Summit campus.

"Through this donation, we are bringing awareness to the fact that mental illness is real and it is treatable,” said Craig Schiefelbein. “People have to know that they can receive the care they need.”

"We are honored that the Schiefelbein's have entrusted us with this generous gift,” said David L. Moulthrop, President and CEO of Rogers Memorial Hospital, "This support is an outward demonstration of how vital Rogers has been to our community and to our patients in the past, and will continue to be in the future," he said.

"Our newest center truly puts patients and families first. We are creating the kind of facility that is in line with the high-quality, one-of-a-kind care for which Rogers Memorial Hospital is known throughout Lake Country and the nation," said Moulthrop.

The foundation is in the process of raising $4 million to put toward the project as part of an ongoing capital campaign. For more information, please contact the Rogers Foundation at 262-646-1646 or go online to www.rogersmemorialfoundation.org.