Medical Detox
A 3-7 day medically supervised withdrawal period in a dedicated detox wing, with physician oversight, 24-hour nursing, and evidence-based comfort medication protocols for alcohol, opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants.
Learn MoreSteady Ground After the Crisis - RBH Rehab in San Mateo
RBH Rehab opened in 2008 after our founder, a former regional healthcare executive, left her corporate role following one too many conversations about treatment failures she could not unsee. The program she built begins where most patients arrive: at a moment of acute crisis. Our work is to make the next 72 hours, the next month, and the next year measurably steadier.
Welcome to RBH Rehab
RBH Rehab sits on East 3rd Avenue in downtown San Mateo, a four-story converted medical office that became our permanent home in 2010. Eighteen years of operations and 7,100 patients later, the founding orientation has not shifted: every patient who walks through our doors is treated as the person they are about to become, not the crisis that brought them here.
The 36-bed residential program, dedicated medical detox wing, and full outpatient continuum are staffed by 67 clinicians whose work is coordinated through a shared treatment record - one chart, one plan, one team across every shift.
Why Choose RBH Rehab
Stabilization Is the First Goal
We do not ask patients to plan their recovery while their nervous system is still in crisis. Medical detox, sleep restoration, and nutritional repair come first. Therapeutic depth follows once the body has steadied.
Built by Someone Who Walked Away
Our founder spent twelve years in regional healthcare leadership before resigning to build the program she could not find for the patients she had been failing to help. Every protocol traces back to a specific clinical question she encountered in that prior role.
One Team, One Record
Medical, psychiatric, therapy, and case-management staff document in a single shared chart and meet three times weekly per resident. Information does not fall between the shifts that often leave patients feeling invisible.
Cultural Humility Throughout
San Mateo is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse counties in California. Our staff training cycle includes annual cultural-humility coursework, and our admissions team coordinates language access in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese as a routine matter.
Vocational Readiness Built In
Recovery for working adults requires re-entering work successfully. Our residential schedule includes resume building, interview practice, and financial literacy workshops alongside the clinical day - because the second-week-after-discharge job interview is part of the treatment outcome.
In-Network With Eight Major Plans
Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Medicaid, Medicare, Ambetter, Oscar Health, and Humana. Verification typically completes in under an hour and the cost picture is shared honestly before any commitment.
Our Treatment Programs
Residential Treatment
30 to 90 days in our 36-bed residence on East 3rd Avenue. Days are organized around clinical work and vocational-readiness programming - resume building, interview practice, and financial literacy alongside therapy.
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Outpatient Program
PHP, IOP, and standard outpatient tiers. Evening IOP runs 6 to 9 p.m. so Bay Area professionals, parents, and first responders can continue treatment without stepping away from their roles.
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Dual Diagnosis
Integrated care for substance use alongside depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and complex trauma. A board-certified psychiatrist reviews every dual-diagnosis admission within 48 hours.
Learn MoreStories of Recovery
"This was my fourth treatment center in nine years. Each previous attempt had ended the same way - I would graduate, feel optimistic for six to ten weeks, then find myself back in the same patterns. What was different at RBH was the intake conversation. Dr. Cho went through each of the prior attempts with me honestly - what had worked for any period, what had triggered the relapse - and built a plan around the actual data instead of starting fresh. I have been sober seventeen months. For the first time, I can imagine the next seventeen."
- Renata B., residential alumna, 2024
"I was twenty-six, working in tech in Foster City, and I had been functional enough at my drinking that nobody had really noticed. The night I drove home with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit, I knew I had to do something before something happened. RBH met me where I was - they did not require me to hit a bigger bottom before they took me seriously. I finished 45 days residential during my company's medical leave and went back to work the following month. Two years sober."
- Quentin W., residential alumnus, 2024
"Sixteen years on the badge in San Mateo County. The job had given me a vocabulary of fear and anger I could not put down at the end of a shift, and the drinking that started as decompression had become its own emergency. RBH put me in a peer cohort with two other officers and a paramedic for the first three weeks of my stay. I never had to explain myself. The trauma-focused therapy actually moved something I had been carrying for a decade. I am still on the force, three years sober, and now I run our department peer-support group."
- Anthony D., residential alumnus, 2023
Insurance We Accept
We work with most major insurance providers. Verify your benefits today.
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Ambetter
- Cigna
- Oscar Health
- Humana