Central Alabama VA Healthcare System Dothan Mental Health Clinic

Central Alabama VA Healthcare System Dothan Mental Health Clinic

Services:
Testing
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• HIV testing
• Laboratory testing
• STD testing
• TB screening
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• 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
• Substance use treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Private health insurance
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Veterans
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Seniors or older adults

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

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

• Outpatient

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

• Clozapine
• Olanzapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Fluphenazine
• Trifluoperazine
• Brexpiprazole
• Paliperidone
• Asenapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Ziprasidone
• Perphenazine
• Thioridazine
• IIoperidone
• Risperidone
• Haloperidol
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Pimozide
• Prochlorperazine
• Loxapine
• Quetiapine
• Chlorpromazine
• Aripiprazole
• Thiothixene
• Cariprazine
• Lurasidone

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Federally Qualified Health Center

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Ancillary Services

• Supported housing
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services
• Education services
• Integrated primary care services
• Supported employment
• Illness management and recovery
• Legal advocacy
• Vocational rehabilitation services

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

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