Located on the main campus, the Inn is our primary residence, with 24/7 nursing availability and accommodations for up to 45 patients. When you accept an offer of admission, you’ll enter our Inn program, which will give you an opportunity to get to know members of the nursing staff, other members of your treatment team, and the patient community.

The Inn Residential Program (IRP) supports patients as they begin to build a treatment alliance. On-going work in IRP allows patients to strengthen their capacity for self‑care and self‑management. Nursing staff play a central role in helping patients maintain safety, communicate their needs clearly, and use words rather than actions to express distress and also provide education and support around medication management. Together nursing and therapeutic community staff facilitate the twice‑daily IRP group, which offers structured opportunities to become better known, learn about turning to peers for support, and reflect on self-defeating relational patterns. Life at the Inn immerses patients in the Therapeutic Community Program, where they can participate in leisure activities, welcome new community members, exchange peer feedback, and join a wide range of groups in addition to the IRP meetings. The Activities Program that offers a range of creative opportunities is also available to patients right from the start of treatment.

If, as most do, you remain at Riggs after the initial six-week period of evaluation and treatment, your treatment team (which remains the same from admission to discharge, allowing patients to develop treatment relationships where they are seen, heard, and understood more fully) may approve a lower level of care, but most remain in an Inn program beyond six weeks.

Resembling a New England historic inn or college building more than a hospital, there are three floors that include mostly single rooms, some with private baths, others with shared bathrooms. The nurse's station and medication dispensing closet are conveniently located near patient rooms, while community space includes a dining room offering buffet-style meals, a library, a fully equipped modern gym, and many relaxing common areas where you can find nursing staff or other patients, day or night.