A partnership between the County, the State of Maryland and Anne Arundel Medical Center resulted in a Certificate of Need being filed to build the facility. The CON was approved in July 1990. Alternate names were investigated for the project after CON award. Pathways was chosen as a name implying a journey consonant with individualized treatment. No journey to recovery is the same.
Individual steps evolve over time and mirror the internal journey to serenity and healthy lifestyle.
If spirituality is the quality of a relationship along a continuum with ourselves, with others and with a higher power, then the facility design combined with site development presents a comprehensive continuum to support the journey into recovery.