VA San Diego Healthcare System Chula Vista Clinic

VA San Diego Healthcare System Chula Vista Clinic

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

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

• Outpatient

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Pharmacotherapies

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Substance use treatment

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

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults

Ancillary Services

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