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Altoona, PA
Addiction treatment and mental health care
James E Van Zandt VA Medical Center
James E Van Zandt VA Medical Center provides addiction treatment and mental health care in Altoona, PA, with outpatient services. People seeking care can access detoxification, intensive outpatient treatment, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Payment options include private health insurance and self-payment.
2907 Pleasant Valley Boulevard, Altoona, PA, 16602
Services & treatment options
Treatment
Type of Care
- Detoxification
- 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
Care setting
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Outpatient
- Outpatient detoxification
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
- Buprenorphine used in Treatment
- Naltrexone used in Treatment
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- In-network prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Opioid Treatment
- Buprenorphine detoxification
- Buprenorphine maintenance
- Lofexidine or Clonidine detoxification
- Maintenance service with medically supervised withdrawal after stabilization
- Prescribes buprenorphine
- Prescribes naltrexone
- Relapse prevention with naltrexone
Pharmacotherapies
- Acamprosate (Campral®)
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Brexpiprazole
- Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Buprenorphine without naloxone
- Cariprazine
- Clonidine
- Clozapine
- Haloperidol
- IIoperidone
- Lurasidone
- Medication for mental disorders
- Medications for HIV treatment
- Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
- Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
- Naltrexone (oral)
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Olanzapine
- Paliperidone
- Perphenazine
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Ziprasidone
Treatment Approaches
- 12-step facilitation
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Community reinforcement plus vouchers
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Matrix Model
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Substance use disorder counseling
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Trauma-related counseling
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Complete medical history/physical exam
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Interim services for clients
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Professional interventionist/educational consultant
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- HIV testing
- Laboratory testing
- Metabolic syndrome monitoring
- STD testing
- TB screening
- Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
- Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
Detoxification (medical withdrawal) Services
- Alcohol Detoxification
- Medication routinely used during detoxification
- Opioids detoxification
Medical Services
- Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
- Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Exclusive Services
- Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients
Emergency Mental Health Services
- Crisis intervention team
- Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Active duty military
- Adult women
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
- Members of military families
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Veterans
Age Groups Accepted
- Adults
- Seniors
- Young Adults
Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
Payment & insurance
Payment and insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Private health insurance
- U.S. Department of VA funds
Support services
Transitional Services
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Naloxone and overdose education
- Outcome follow-up after discharge
Recovery Support Services
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Employment counseling or training
- Housing services
- Mentoring/peer support
- Self-help groups
Education and Counseling Services
- Family counseling
- Group counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Individual counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Substance use disorder education
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Language Services
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
Ancillary Services
- Acupuncture
- Assertive community treatment
- Case management service
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Education services
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Integrated primary care services
- Intensive case management
- Legal advocacy
- Mental health services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Social skills development
- Suicide prevention services
- Supported employment
- Supported housing
- Transportation assistance
- Vocational rehabilitation services
About the center
Hospitals
- General Hospital (including VA hospital)
Facility operation
- Federal Government
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
License/Certification/Accreditation
- Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
- The Joint Commission
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking not permitted
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping not permitted
Facility Type
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility