Palomar Health Medical Center at Poway Adult Psych Unit

Palomar Health Medical Center at Poway Adult Psych Unit

Services:
Assessment/Pre-treatment
• Screening for tobacco use

Treatment Approaches

• Individual psychotherapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Activity therapy
• Group therapy

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Type of Care

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

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

• Local, county, or community government

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Pharmacotherapies

• Cariprazine
• Olanzapine
• Aripiprazole
• Brexpiprazole
• IIoperidone
• Risperidone
• Loxapine
• Lurasidone
• Perphenazine
• Fluphenazine
• Nicotine replacement
• Quetiapine
• Haloperidol
• Clozapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Paliperidone
• Chlorpromazine
• Ziprasidone
• Asenapine

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Suicide prevention services