West Palm Beach VAMC Mental Hygiene (116A)

West Palm Beach VAMC Mental Hygiene (116A)

Services:
Recovery Support Services
• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Supported employment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Family psychoeducation
• Assertive community treatment
• Intensive case management
• Integrated primary care services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Supported housing
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Education services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Suicide prevention services

Treatment Approaches

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

Pharmacotherapies

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Veterans
• Members of military families
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Seniors or older adults

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Private health insurance

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

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

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

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking 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
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

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

• Outpatient
• Residential/24-hour residential
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling