James E Van Zandt VA Medical Center

Services & Programs

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Treatment Approaches

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

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

• Outpatient

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• IIoperidone
• Ziprasidone
• Perphenazine
• Brexpiprazole
• Haloperidol
• Asenapine
• Lurasidone
• Quetiapine
• Paliperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Nicotine replacement
• Aripiprazole
• Risperidone
• Cariprazine
• Clozapine
• Olanzapine

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Young Adults
• Adults

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

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Supported housing
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Suicide prevention services
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Integrated primary care services
• Education services
• Intensive case management
• Assertive community treatment
• Illness management and recovery
• Supported employment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Case management service
• Legal advocacy

Location

Address: 2907 Pleasant Valley Boulevard, Altoona, PA 16602

Phone: (866) 418-3591

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

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