What Level of Care is Equip?

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What level of care is Equip?

Equip is a fully virtual eating disorder program that breaks the mold of traditional levels of care by treating medically stable patients across a wide spectrum of acuity levels. Our model can be a great fit for patients who might otherwise seek residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, or traditional outpatient treatment.

Reimagining eating disorder treatment

Equip redefines the fragmented eating disorder treatment landscape, offering evidence-based treatment throughout a patient's entire journey to recovery. Rather than segmenting patient treatment by acuity level (requiring step-down from one setting to another), Equip provides integrated, flexible treatment that meets patients where they are.

Ensuring medical stability

All our patients are medically cleared before enrollment and monitored for stability by Equip medical and psychiatric teams on a regular, ongoing basis. In the event that a patient is or becomes medically unstable, Equip will help coordinate their hospitalization and continue to support the patient and their loved ones in a limited capacity. Following stabilization, the vast majority of these patients discharge back into Equip care, enabling them to benefit from our flexible and continuous care model.

Who we treat

Equip providers are experienced and successful in treating a wide range of patient acuity, including both highly acute patients who might traditionally seek residential treatment (RTC), a partial hospitalization program (PHP), or intensive outpatient program (IOP) and lower acuity patients looking for outpatient alternatives. Instead of “stepping down” through these traditional treatment settings to new care teams and environments, Equip patients stay with the same care team and in their community through their treatment with Equip and into recovery.

of patients are high acuity*

of patients live >45 miles from a treatment center

of patients had no prior treatment

of patients were previously in a higher level of care

*Patients deemed “high acuity” are frequently engaged in ED behaviors, moderately to severely malnourished, and are at elevated risk of medical/psychiatric instability

How Equip is different

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Traditional care

Continuity of care

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Consistent care team from the start to end of treatment

Care teams change when stepping down in level of care

Evidence

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Uses leading evidence-based modalities; patients experience 37% decrease in eating disorder behaviors after 8 weeks

Isn’t always evidence-based, resulting in a 50% relapse rate

Quality of life