Central Alabama VA Healthcare System West Campus

Central Alabama VA Healthcare System West Campus

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Seniors or older adults
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Veterans

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Federally Qualified Health Center

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Ancillary Services

• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Assertive community treatment
• Suicide prevention services
• Legal advocacy
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Education services
• Case management service
• Supported housing
• Supported employment
• Illness management and recovery
• Integrated primary care services

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

Testing

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

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Private health insurance

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

• Outpatient

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

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

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

Pharmacotherapies

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted