Accreditations & certifications at Pines Recovery Life
Every credential at Pines comes from a body outside our walls. Each one is publicly searchable, so you can confirm our standing yourself before anyone walks through our doors.
LegitScriptCertified
What our credentials say about the facility
Each body does one thing, and its standing is posted in a public registry you can look up.
The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval
The Joint Commission is the most widely recognized healthcare accreditor in the United States. Its Gold Seal is awarded after on-site surveys that inspect clinical protocols, patient safety procedures, medication management, staff competency, environmental safety, and facility standards. Renewal surveys happen on a three-year cycle, with unannounced check-ins in between.
Holding the Gold Seal means our clinical protocols, patient safety procedures and quality improvement are verified by an outside body on a recurring cycle.
LegitScript: addiction treatment certification
LegitScript is the independent certification body that Google, Meta, Bing, and most other major advertising platforms require before an addiction-treatment facility can advertise. Certification covers clinical operations, marketing claims, staff credentials, facility licensing, and business ethics.
LegitScript runs annual renewals and monitors facilities continuously. Losing certification also ends a facility’s standing on every major advertising platform at once.
Florida DCF: substance abuse provider license
Our DCF license must be renewed on DCF’s cycle with on-site compliance verification. It authorizes medical detoxification and residential inpatient treatment, the two levels of care we deliver.
License details, including expiration date and authorized service components, are publicly available on DCF’s provider lookup tool.
SAMHSA: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration maintains the national directory of licensed substance-use treatment facilities. Pines Recovery Life is listed in that directory, the federal resource patients, families, clinicians and courts use to find licensed care.
Listing requires state licensure and compliance with federal standards for patient confidentiality (42 CFR Part 2) and clinical recordkeeping.
DEA: Drug Enforcement Administration registration
Pines Recovery Life is registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe and dispense the controlled medications used in medical detoxification, including buprenorphine, phenobarbital and medically supervised benzodiazepine tapers.
DEA registration requires verified physician licensure, secure medication storage, chain-of-custody documentation, and periodic audit.
HIPAA Compliance & 42 CFR Part 2
All clinical records, communications and billing systems at Pines Recovery Life comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and 42 CFR Part 2, the federal regulation that specifically protects substance use disorder records.
Business Associate Agreements are in place with every third-party vendor that touches patient data. Protected health information is never shared with marketing platforms or ad-tracking systems.
Physician-led, accredited, and built for unhurried care.
Before a family calls, they want to know who inspects this facility and what the license covers. Checking each credential gives you that answer in a public registry.
Medical Director Sergey Litvinov, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist, directs clinical care. Every patient is reviewed by an attending physician, not a counselor signing off on a protocol.
The Joint Commission accredits Pines independently and surveys the program against its safety and quality standards.
LegitScript certification is what Google, Microsoft, and Meta require before an addiction treatment provider can advertise with them. It means an outside audit of how the facility operates.
Depression, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD frequently co-occur with substance use. Psychiatric assessment and care run alongside detox from the first day.
Most commercial and military plans are accepted. Verification is free, confidential, and typically completed in under 60 seconds.
Private bedrooms, a dedicated medical detox wing, therapy rooms sized for real clinical work, and outdoor grounds.
Questions families ask most answered plainly.
Does Pines hold the Joint Commission Gold Seal?
Is Pines certified by LegitScript?
Does Pines hold a Florida substance abuse provider license?
Can families find Pines in SAMHSA’s directory?
Is Pines HIPAA-compliant and DEA-registered?
Authoritative references and related resources.
Clinical authorities & sources. ASAM: Clinical Practice Guidelines · SAMHSA: National Helpline · CDC: Overdose Prevention
Related Pines resources. Medical detox · Residential inpatient · Dual diagnosis · Admissions process · Insurance carriers · For families
From the first call through aftercare
Coordination starts on the admissions call and runs through detox, residential and the handoff to aftercare. At every phase someone is named in the chart: the admissions counselor, the attending physician, the primary therapist, the case manager and the alumni coordinator.
Families get support at the same time. With the patient’s consent, our family liaison gives regular updates, schedules family therapy and helps you prepare for visits and aftercare. Family education, crisis-line referrals and Al-Anon and Nar-Anon resources are open to you with the patient’s consent as well.
The case manager builds a step-down plan around where you live, what your insurance covers, and the clinical team’s recommendation, and hands it to you before discharge. The plan is ready while you are still in the building.
All communication, charting and data handling is HIPAA-compliant. Substance use disorder records get extra federal protection under 42 CFR Part 2, which limits redisclosure even inside healthcare settings. You can put privacy preferences in writing at any point, and our team applies them across admissions, clinical and alumni systems.
Check anything before you decide
If you’re vetting Pines for yourself, a family member, or a patient referral, our admissions team will walk you through every credential and point you to the public registries. Ask for anything, including what a credential covers and where to confirm it.
Call (855) 981-8935Reviewed by Sergey Litvinov, MD Medical Director at Pines Recovery Life. Updated April 2026.
