Tennova LaFollette Medical Center Senior Behavioral Health

Tennova LaFollette Medical Center Senior Behavioral Health

Services:
Age Groups Accepted
• Seniors

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Type of Care

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

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Ancillary Services

• Diet and exercise counseling
• Legal advocacy
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Integrated primary care services
• Supported employment
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Education services

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Crisis intervention team

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Treatment Approaches

• Group therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Activity therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Cognitive remediation therapy

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Seniors or older adults
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Veterans
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis

Pharmacotherapies

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

Testing

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

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

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

• Private for-profit organization

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted