Passages Malibu (Sycamore Meadows) | Flagship Concierge Residential

By SoCal Addiction Centers Editorial Team | Last reviewed: | 4 min read Clinically Reviewed

Passages Malibu at Sycamore Meadows Drive — Malibu, Los Angeles County

Passages Malibu at 6447 Sycamore Meadows Drive is the second of four Malibu-located flagship-tier residential facilities operating under the Passages concierge clinical brand. 6-bed residential, DHCS license 190283FP current through May 31, 2027, legal entity Grasshopper House LLC (shared with the Meadows Court location). It meets our four-signal flagship bar: active DHCS licensure, SAMHSA 2025 National Directory match, current CARF accreditation across three SUD-specific programs, and multi-level-of-care operation.

What makes this facility flagship tier

DHCS license: application 190283FP, certified RES-DETOX (residential treatment with detoxification services), current through May 31, 2027.

CARF SUD-specific accreditations: three programs — Detoxification/Withdrawal Management – Inpatient (BH), Detoxification/Withdrawal Management – Residential (BH), Residential Treatment (BH). Shared under Grasshopper House LLC’s CARF entity along with the Meadows Court location; verify at CARF provider search.

SAMHSA 2025 match: confirmed in the 2025 National Directory.

Multi-LOC: inpatient detox, residential detox, and residential treatment co-located on a single site.

Clinical program overview

The Sycamore Meadows Drive site operates under the same Passages clinical framework as Meadows Court — small-group (6-bed) concierge residential, non-12-step clinical orientation, individual-therapy-heavy scheduling, psychiatric evaluation and trauma-focused therapy integration, nutritional and physiological support protocols, and individualized aftercare planning. The two sites function as a networked operation — patients may be admitted to either based on bed availability at time of intake, with clinical programming delivered consistently across locations.

ASAM levels of care: detox delivered at Level 3.7 (medically monitored intensive inpatient) or Level 3.5 (clinically managed high-intensity residential) depending on clinical presentation; longer-term residential at Level 3.5 with step-down to outpatient aftercare as clinically appropriate. The small-cap operational scale enables real individualization — patients with significant co-occurring psychiatric or medical complexity receive attention that larger-capacity facilities cannot match per-patient.

Who this facility is a good fit for — and who it isn’t

Clinically oriented toward patients with private-pay capacity or strong PPO commercial-insurance coverage, drawn to small-group residential care and the Passages non-12-step clinical philosophy. Not Medi-Cal contracted.

Patients with severe medical instability — active delirium tremens, severe polysubstance withdrawal requiring ICU-level monitoring — may require initial stabilization at a general hospital before stepping down to Sycamore Meadows. The small bed count limits concurrent admission of complex high-severity presentations; confirm clinical fit during pre-admission assessment.

Families choosing between Passages locations for admission: the Meadows Court and Sycamore Meadows sites are clinically equivalent under the shared Grasshopper House operator. Passages 8 and Passages 9 operate under separate LLCs with the same clinical brand. For larger-capacity residential at the Passages brand, consider Passages Ventura (90-bed, Port Hueneme) — different clinical orientation (primarily IOP + Outpatient per CARF accreditation) but same branded continuum.

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Location and geography

6447 Sycamore Meadows Drive sits near the Meadows Court location in the same coastal Malibu residential corridor. Both sites benefit from geographic isolation from urban substance-use cues — a clinical feature for patients whose substance-use patterns are environmentally cued. PCH coastal access; approximately 35 minutes from LAX absent traffic.

Accepted insurance

Private-pay and commercial-insurance out-of-network billing orientation. Specific in-network commercial carrier acceptance should be verified directly. Our verify insurance tool conducts independent benefits checks without triggering facility sales contact.

Admission process

Intake through Passages central line (310) 589-2880 — serves all four Malibu locations plus Passages Ventura. Clinical assessment, payer verification, medical screening, and room assignment across Passages network based on fit and availability.

DHCS licensing detail

Application 190283FP is one of multiple DHCS certifications under the Grasshopper House LLC legal entity. The licensing structure — separate DHCS applications per physical site, shared CARF accreditation across the operator — is a common pattern for multi-site SUD operators and reflects DHCS’s site-specific licensing framework versus CARF’s operator-level or program-level accreditation framework. See our DHCS verification walkthrough for more on the multi-site licensing pattern.

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