Big Spring State Hospital

Big Spring State Hospital

Services:
Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)
• State government

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Seniors or older adults
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Integrated primary care services
• Suicide prevention services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Education services
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Illness management and recovery

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Type of Care

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

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Activity therapy

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Testing

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

Language Services

• Spanish

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Perphenazine
• Chlorpromazine
• Olanzapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Paliperidone
• Cariprazine
• Clozapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Lurasidone
• Loxapine
• Haloperidol
• Fluphenazine
• Aripiprazole
• Quetiapine