Mooney. Mooney was deeply concerned about alcoholic priests in his own archdiocese and had been favorably impressed when some had recovered through the Guest House process in Wisconsin. Ripley obtained the necessary funds required to make the purchase with a loan. Ripley reasoned that these clergy lacked the support of the Church hierarchy (who were, generally speaking at that time, punitive toward alcoholic priests), and that the average clergyman was better able to recover in the care of laymen, but among men of his own calling, education and lifestyle. As the need for services grew, Guest House found that there were long waiting periods for admission. In the early 1960s, a routine operation took Rip to the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, which he felt was a great location for a second Guest House treatment center. In 1967, the ground was broken for the Rochester Treatment Center, and it was opened in 1969. Guest House responds to an increasing need and opens a program for women religious in 1994 on the Lake Orion campus in the Scripps Mansion. In 2007, construction is completed on a new treatment center for women religious in Lake Orion, restoring the mansion to continuing care and education use. In the same year, the Scripps Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places. To most efficiently meet the needs of clients, Guest House consolidated in 2014, closing the Rochester center and returning the clergy and men religious to a renovated treatment center in Lake Orion, with the women religious relocating to a new state-of-the-art, handicapped-accessible facility on the Lake Orion grounds. Guest House acquires the Human Development Magazine. Locations Guest House currently treats priests, deacons, religious and seminarians in Lake Orion, Michigan. Treatment Guest House's annual graduates join nearly 1,400 living alumni worldwide and are among over 7,000 cared for since 1956. Most of our alumni still serve the Church as pastors, teachers, counselors and missionaries. Guest House alumni enjoy successful long-term abstinence rates which remain at the top of the recovery industry. Patients come from dioceses and religious communities throughout the United States and around the world. Primary care As part of its principal mission, Guest House currently admits about 65 priests, deacons, brothers, sisters and seminarians per year. The average length of stay ranges from 90–150 days of intensive counseling, education, medical and nutritional support, fellowship, recreation and spiritual renewal and