The Anna Westin Foundation and The Emily Program have partnered to deliver premier personalized residential eating disorder treatment for adolescent and adult females. The Emily Program's residential treatment program at The Anna Westin House (AWH) is the only residential treatment center for eating disorders in Minnesota . The AWH is a quality seven day a week program integrating both traditional services and complementary services in a safe, nurturing, home-like environment that is affordable, competitively priced, and reimbursed by third party payers. A collaborative multidisciplinary team of health care providers has worked together in the planning and development of the program components. They include: The Anna Westin Foundation (AWF), The Emily Program, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BC/BC), Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Psychiatry , and the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing along with much input from individuals who have struggled with eating disorders.
The components of the AWH program include:

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• A highly experienced multidisciplinary team committed to supporting residents in the process of change through personalized treatment
• A non-exclusive model of therapy utilizing feminist, cognitive-behavioral, narrative, and family therapies
• A holistic approach to programming integrating traditional medical, nutritional, and psychotherapy approaches with experiential and complementary therapy approaches  
• Partnerships with the local community that integrate program elements into community services to benefit the community and combat the isolation of the individual struggling with the eating disorder.
• Continued evaluated and modification of programming according to current scientific evidence and outcome studies

The core program components include the following traditional and complementary therapies:

• Psychotherapy in individual, group and family formats to help the individual reduce eating disorder symptoms and assist families in understanding how to help the individual recover
• Complementary and alternative therapies, including art, music, massage, spirituality, mindfulness, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, to relieve anxiety, improve body image and address spiritual well-being
• Nutritional intervention and counseling to restore proper nutrition, accomplish weight restoration, and support the development of a healthy relationship with food
• Medical monitoring and nursing care to evaluate and monitor medical status
• Psychiatric evaluation of co-morbidities and consideration of medications in treatment
• Activity evaluation and planning to assist in developing and supporting a healthy relationship with activity  
• Experiential therapy activities to assist the individual in self-expression and in gaining assertiveness and symptom control through community experiences including clothes shopping, grocery shopping and dining at restaurants
• Education/schooling to allow the individual to continue to proceed with their formal academic experience in conjunction with local schools

A Safe, Supportive Place

• From the moment you walk in the door, The Anna Westin House feels like a safe, supportive place where healing can occur. The environment design was done in a very deliberate and thoughtful way. Designer, Amy Johnson, had the following to say about the process she went through to design the facility to meet the vision and goals of the house: “My intention was to create a culture somewhere between MTV and PBS. The environment says to the residents: You are not alone”

Referrals to The Anna Westin House

For information on how to make a referral to the house please call The Emily Program; 651-645-5323