Ventura County Medical Center Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Services

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Case management service
• Suicide prevention services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Legal advocacy

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

• Local, county, or community government

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
• Outpatient

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Veterans
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with eating disorders

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Other languages (excluding Spanish)
• Spanish

Other Languages

• Tagalog
• Japanese
• Vietnamese
• Portuguese

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Pharmacotherapies

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

Treatment Approaches

• Activity therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Group therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Testing

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

Location

200 Hillmont Avenue, Ventura, CA 93003

Phone: (866) 453-5835

Website: https://hospitals.vchca.org/

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