Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center Veterans Affairs

Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center Veterans Affairs

Services:
Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)
• Regular outpatient treatment
• Hospital inpatient detoxification
• Residential/24-hour residential
• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Outpatient
• Short-term residential
• Outpatient detoxification
• Hospital inpatient treatment
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Self-help groups
• Housing services
• Employment counseling or training
• Assistance with obtaining social services

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

• Buprenorphine used in Treatment
• Naltrexone used in Treatment

Detoxification (medical withdrawal) Services

• Benzodiazepines Detoxification
• Medication routinely used during detoxification
• Alcohol Detoxification
• Opioids detoxification

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Other Services

• Treatment for other addiction disorder
• Treatment for gambling disorder

Language Services

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

Treatment Approaches

• Brief intervention
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Trauma-related counseling
• Anger management
• Matrix Model
• 12-step facilitation
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Substance use disorder counseling
• Motivational interviewing
• Contingency management/motivational incentives
• Relapse prevention

Medical Services

• Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
• Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination

Education and Counseling Services

• Marital/couples counseling
• Group counseling
• Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
• Substance use disorder education
• Individual counseling
• Family counseling
• Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
• Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
• HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support

Gender Accepted

• Female
• Male

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Hospital licensing authority
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
• The Joint Commission

Pharmacotherapies

• Medications for HIV treatment
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
• Clonidine
• Buprenorphine with naloxone
• Nicotine replacement
• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
• Disulfiram
• Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant
• Acamprosate (Campral®)
• Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
• Medication for mental disorders

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Interim services for clients
• Complete medical history/physical exam
• Screening for substance use
• Outreach to persons in the community
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for tobacco use

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Pregnant/postpartum women
• Adult women
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
• Adult men
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Veterans

Ancillary Services

• Social skills development
• Domestic violence services, including family or partner
• Integrated primary care services
• Early intervention for HIV
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Acupuncture
• Transportation assistance
• Mental health services

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Type of Care

• Detoxification
• 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

• Medicaid
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicare
• Cash or self-payment
• Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
• Private health insurance

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Other Languages

• Hindi
• French

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
• This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

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

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults

Hospitals

• General Hospital (including VA hospital)

External Opioid Medications Source

• In-network prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity

Type of Opioid Treatment

• Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
• Buprenorphine detoxification
• Relapse prevention with naltrexone
• Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
• Prescribes naltrexone
• Buprenorphine maintenance
• Prescribes buprenorphine

Transitional Services

• Outcome follow-up after discharge
• Discharge Planning
• Aftercare/continuing care
• Naloxone and overdose education

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• Other contracted prescribing entity
• In-network prescribing entity

Testing

• STD testing
• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• TB screening
• HIV testing
• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)