VA San Diego Healthcare System Escondido Clinic

VA San Diego Healthcare System Escondido Clinic

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

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

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Pharmacotherapies

• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Risperidone
• Ziprasidone
• Quetiapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Olanzapine

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Other State funds
• Cash or self-payment
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• County or local government funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
• State education agency funds
• Private health insurance
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Community Service Block Grants

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

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

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

Ancillary Services

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

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Seniors or older adults
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Members of military families
• Veterans
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

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

• Outpatient

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility