The History of Kolmac Integrated Behavioral Health Centers
The history of Kolmac starts with Dr. George Kolodner’s assignment to Bethesda Naval Hospital as a young Navy doctor. There he saw patients with alcohol addiction recover in the hospital’s inpatient treatment program. After leaving the Navy in 1973, Dr. Kolodner decided to develop a treatment model that would replicate the clinical success he had observed at Bethesda, but on an outpatient rather than an inpatient basis.
Kolmac History Timeline
2016 | Name is changed from Kolmac Clinic to Kolmac Integrated Behavioral Health Centers |
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2014 | Treatment for gambling disorders begins |
2013 | 20,000 patients treated |
2012 | Kolmac Baltimore office merges with Crossroads Centers. |
2011 | Sixth location opens in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. |
2009 | Kolmac named the area’s Best Substance Abuse Treatment program in a Washingtonian Magazine poll of 1,500 mental health professionals. 2009 was the only year in which this category was included. |
2008 | Kolmac purchases Partners in Recovery program and opens fifth location in Towson, MD on the campus of and in collaboration with Sheppard Pratt Hospital. |
2007 | The Kolmac Foundation is formed. The Foundation is a non-profit organization set-up to provide financial support to those who are unable to afford the full cost of addiction treatment. |
2006 |
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2003 | Buprenorphine is used for the treatment of patients with opioid use disorders, improving our success rate for this population |
1996 | 5,000 patients treated since program inception |
1989 | 2,000 patients treated since program inception |
1988 | Third location opens in Gaithersburg, Maryland |
1985 | Program begins treating patients with opioid use disorders and using naltrexone |
1984 |
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1975 | The clinical results of the program are presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Council on Alcoholism. |
1973 | Kolmac program, co-founded by Dr. George Kolodner and Jim McMahon, for the treatment of alcohol problems, opens in Silver Spring, Maryland. It was the first intensive outpatient (IOP) addiction rehabilitation program in the country – all other treatment at the time was being delivered in a residential or partial-hospitalization setting. |