Frontier Health Watauga Mental Health Center

Frontier Health Watauga Mental Health Center

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

Testing

• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• TB screening
• Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing
• HIV testing
• STD testing

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

• Private non-profit organization

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Treatment Approaches

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Mental health services
• Child care for clients’ children
• Suicide prevention services
• Domestic violence services, including family or partner
• Early intervention for HIV
• Social skills development
• Transportation assistance

Education and Counseling Services

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

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Other Services

• Treatment for gambling disorder
• Treatment for other addiction disorder

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity
• In-network prescribing entity

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Clonidine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Disulfiram
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Medication for mental disorders
• Buprenorphine with naloxone
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
• Acamprosate (Campral®)

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

• Outpatient
• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
• Intensive outpatient treatment
• Regular outpatient treatment

License/Certification/Accreditation

• State Substance use treatment agency
• State mental health department
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• Outreach to persons in the community
• Interim services for clients
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Professional interventionist/educational consultant

Recovery Support Services

• Employment counseling or training
• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support
• Recovery coach
• Assistance with obtaining social services

Type of Care

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

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

• Naltrexone used in Treatment
• Buprenorphine used in Treatment

External Opioid Medications Source

• In-network prescribing entity
• No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Gender Accepted

• Male
• Female

Type of Opioid Treatment

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

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

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Adult women
• Pregnant/postpartum women
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients