VA San Diego Healthcare System Chula Vista Clinic

VA San Diego Healthcare System Chula Vista Clinic

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

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

• Outpatient

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Group therapy

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

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Type of Care

• Substance use treatment
• Mental health treatment

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Ancillary Services

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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