Aiken/Barnwell Mental Health Center The Polly Best Center

Aiken/Barnwell Mental Health Center The Polly Best Center

Services:
Testing
• Laboratory testing

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State education agency funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Medicare
• Other State funds
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Family psychoeducation
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Supported housing
• Suicide prevention services
• Education services
• Assertive community treatment
• Supported employment
• Case management service

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

• State government

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Children/Adolescents
• Young Adults
• Adults

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Group therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Young adults
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Seniors or older adults

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Facility Type

• Community mental health center

Type of Care

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

Pharmacotherapies

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

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

• Outpatient

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services