Pyramid Drug & Alcohol Rehab comes to Kessler
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 • The Hammonton Gazette • Page 3
PYRAMID, from Page 1
The grand opening marked the
establishment of Pyramid Health-
care Inc.’s first detox and inpatient
treatment center in the New Jersey,
which will significantly satisfy a
need for inpatient drug and alcohol
rehabilitation services within the
state, according to Pyramid
Healthcare Inc. Director of Oper-
ations Dominic Barone.
“Right now, they’re sending
clients up to Bergen County; that’s
not productive. So, they really feel
good about this facility … It is
right in their back yard and it’s
going to serve a population that is
tremendously underserved in the
state,” Barone said.
The recovering patients at the
new detox and inpatient treatment
center will receive an individual-
ized treatment program that is tai-
lored to their needs and the addic-
tion issues they face.
“We don’t have a cookie cutter
approach. We individualize treat-
ment … We have an eclectic ap-
proach; we don’t do anything one
way. A lot of rehabs out there try
and have patients fit their program.
We, as a program, are going to pre-
pare ourselves to fit every individ-
ual; that’s our approach,” Pyramid
Healthcare Inc. Vice President of
Operations Matt Mantone said.
Mantone said that Pyramid
Healthcare Inc. will also be pre-
pared to fit the financial limita-
tions of every patient that seeks
treatment at its detox and inpatient
treatment center by accepting sev-
eral primary insurance plans, as
well as Medicaid.
“Our payer mix is unique. A lot
of places will take primary insur-
ance, but not Medicaid. Some
places will only take Medicaid.
We’re basically going to take
everybody,” Mantone said.
In March 2017, Hammonton’s
now-dissolved zoning board of ad-
justment unanimously approved a
use variance that allowed health
care investment group Kessler
Management LLC to use the de-
funct, former hospital space as a
drug and alcohol rehabilitation fa-
cility. The hospital had been shut
down for eight years at the time of
the variance approval, and Man-
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location, so we’re here,” LeFevre
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Before the ceremonial ribbon
cutting of the new facility, Man-
tone introduced several local and
county dignitaries who were in at-
tendance and addressed the crowd,
including Councilman Joseph Gi-
ralo, Atlantic County Executive
Dennis Levinson, Atlantic County
Freeholder Board Chairman Frank
D. Formica and Atlantic County
Fifth District Freeholder James A.
Bertino.
“On behalf of Mayor Steve Di-
Donato and the town of Hammon-
ton, we’re very proud to welcome
a much-needed facility into our
community. We’re happy to see
that the once Kessler Hospital is
now open. You have our full sup-
port from mayor and Council. I
look forward to working with you.
I look forward to seeing many
people helped over the years,” Gi-
ralo said.
Levinson addressed the need for
drug and alcohol addiction being
widely treated as a disease rather
than a character flaw, which he
said will continue to be the ap-
proach taken in Atlantic County by
supporting treatment facilities like
Hammonton’s. Formica added that
the county is currently implement-
ing a few programs that are proac-
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the facility to its current improved
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a very high morale and comfort
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During a welcome address at the
grand opening event, Mantone
gave thanks to Kenneth C.
LeFevre, a former New Jersey
Second Legislative District As-
semblyman and the current man-
aging partner of Pathfinder
Resources LLC., who spent the
past three years lobbying for Pyra-
mid Healthcare LLC to choose
Hammonton as the location of its
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