Amarillo VA Healthcare System Lubbock VA Clinic

Amarillo VA Healthcare System Lubbock VA Clinic

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

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Language Services

• Spanish

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

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

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

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Pharmacotherapies

• Chlorpromazine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Haloperidol
• Perphenazine
• Risperidone
• Fluphenazine
• Clozapine
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Aripiprazole
• Prochlorperazine
• Quetiapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Olanzapine

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicare
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment

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

• Outpatient

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Type of Care

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

Testing

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Treatment Approaches

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