Amarillo VA Healthcare System Lubbock VA Clinic

Amarillo VA Healthcare System Lubbock VA Clinic

Services:
Language Services
• Spanish

Treatment Approaches

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

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

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

• Outpatient

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

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

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

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

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

Ancillary Services

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Testing

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Emergency Mental Health Services

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