rehabChildrens Service Center of Wyoming Valley
Wilkes Barre, PA
Addiction treatment and mental health care
Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center
Veterans Affairs
Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center provides addiction treatment and mental health care in Wilkes Barre, PA, with outpatient, residential, and hospital inpatient services. People seeking care can access detoxification, intensive outpatient treatment, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Payment options include private health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and self-payment.
1111 East End Boulevard, Wilkes Barre, PA, 18711
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
- Hospital inpatient detoxification
- Hospital inpatient treatment
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Outpatient
- Outpatient detoxification
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Short-term residential
Opioid Medications used in Treatment
- Buprenorphine used in Treatment
- Naltrexone used in Treatment
External Opioid Medications Source
- In-network prescribing entity
- Other contracted prescribing entity
Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment
- Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
- 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
- Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
- Buprenorphine detoxification
- Buprenorphine maintenance
- 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
- Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
- Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant
- Buprenorphine with naloxone
- Buprenorphine without naloxone
- Clonidine
- Clozapine
- Disulfiram
- Haloperidol
- Medication for mental disorders
- Medications for HIV treatment
- Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
- Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
- Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
- Naltrexone (oral)
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Olanzapine
- Paliperidone
- Risperidone
Treatment Approaches
- 12-step facilitation
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
- Activity therapy
- Anger management
- Brief intervention
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Contingency management/motivational incentives
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior 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
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- 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
- Screening for mental disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Screening for tobacco use
Testing
- Breathalyzer or blood alcohol 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
- Benzodiazepines Detoxification
- Medication routinely used during detoxification
- Opioids detoxification
Medical Services
- Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
- Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination
Emergency Mental Health Services
- Crisis intervention team
- Psychiatric emergency onsite services
- Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Active duty military
- Adult men
- Adult women
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- 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 experiencing first-episode psychosis
- Persons with Alzheimer's or dementia
- Persons with eating disorders
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Seniors or older adults
- 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)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
- IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Private health insurance
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- U.S. Department of VA funds
Payment Assistance Available
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
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
Other Services
- Treatment for gambling disorder
- Treatment for other addiction disorder
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
- Other languages (excluding Spanish)
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Spanish
Other Languages
- French
- Hindi
Ancillary Services
- Acupuncture
- Assertive community treatment
- Case management service
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Early intervention for HIV
- 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)
- Hospital licensing authority
- 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