Amarillo VA Healthcare System

Amarillo VA Healthcare System

Services:
Facility Vaping Policy
• Vaping not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Illness management and recovery
• Legal advocacy
• Education services
• Supported employment
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Suicide prevention services
• Family psychoeducation
• Case management service
• Intensive case management
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Supported housing
• Integrated primary care services
• Diet and exercise counseling

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Federal Government
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment
• Substance use treatment

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Active duty military
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Young adults
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with eating disorders
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Veterans
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Members of military families

Testing

• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Laboratory testing
• TB screening
• HIV testing
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• STD testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Haloperidol
• Clozapine
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Aripiprazole
• Perphenazine
• Quetiapine
• Risperidone
• Olanzapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Fluphenazine
• Prochlorperazine
• Chlorpromazine

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Language Services

• Spanish

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Medicare
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Treatment Approaches

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Activity therapy
• Group therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services