Fort Walton Beach Medical Center Behavioral Health

Fort Walton Beach Medical Center Behavioral Health

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Members of military families
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Veterans
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Active duty military
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Young adults

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

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

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

Testing

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Education services
• Integrated primary care services
• Diet and exercise counseling

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

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

• Outpatient
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Partial hospitalization/day treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• County or local government funds
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Cash or self-payment
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Other State funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
• Private health insurance

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults

Pharmacotherapies

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

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

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

• Private for-profit organization