VA San Diego Healthcare System Escondido Clinic

Services

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• Other State funds
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Community Service Block Grants
• Medicare
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Private health insurance
• State education agency funds
• County or local government funds
• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Ancillary Services

• Chronic disease/illness management
• Illness management and recovery
• Supported housing
• Intensive case management
• Case management service
• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Integrated primary care services
• Family psychoeducation
• Education services

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Treatment Approaches

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Group therapy

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

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
• Substance use treatment

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

• Outpatient

Pharmacotherapies

• Ziprasidone
• Quetiapine
• Olanzapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

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

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

Location

815 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Escondido, CA 92025

Phone: (866) 453-5835

Website: http://www.sandiego.va.gov

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