VA San Diego Healthcare System Kearny Mesa Clinic

VA San Diego Healthcare System Kearny Mesa Clinic

Services:
Recovery Support Services
• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Type of Care

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

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Veterans
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

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

• Outpatient

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

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Pharmacotherapies

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Ancillary Services

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

Treatment Approaches

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling