Southeast Louisiana VA HCS New Orleans VA Outpatient Clinic

Southeast Louisiana VA HCS New Orleans VA Outpatient Clinic

Services:
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

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Partial hospitalization/day treatment
• Outpatient

Testing

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

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

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Other Languages

• Japanese
• Italian
• German
• Farsi
• Russian
• French

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Pharmacotherapies

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

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Individual psychotherapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Couples/family therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Activity therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Group therapy
• Cognitive remediation therapy

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish
• Other languages (excluding Spanish)

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds

Ancillary Services

• Chronic disease/illness management
• Supported housing
• Assisted Outpatient Treatment
• Education services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Case management service
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Legal advocacy
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services
• Family psychoeducation
• Supported employment
• Assertive community treatment
• Illness management and recovery
• Intensive case management
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Integrated primary care services

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services