VA Augusta Healthcare System
Facility Type: Mental Health
Facility Specialization: Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility
Facility Operation: Federal Government, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Age Groups Accepted: Young Adults, Adults, Seniors
9249 Highway 29 North, Athens, GA 30601
Show URL addressVA Augusta Healthcare System
Phone: 706-733-0188 x45511
Intake: 706-733-0188 x26237
Facility Details
Type of Care
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
Financial Information
Payment / Insurance / Funding Accepted
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Private health insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- U.S. Department of VA funds
Smoking Policy
Facility Services
Service Settings: Outpatient
Assessmet / Pre-Treatment: Screening for tobacco use
Testing: HIV testing, STD testing, TB screening, Metabolic syndrome monitoring, Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV), Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV), Laboratory testing
Treatment & Recovery
- Housing services
- Mentoring/peer support
Special Programs / Groups Offered
- Veterans
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
Emergency Health Services
- Crisis intervention team
- Psychiatric emergency onsite services
- Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
Education and Counseling Services
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Additional Services
Treatment Details
Treatment Approaches: Cognitive behavioral therapy, Couples/family therapy, Dialectical behavior therapy, Group therapy, Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment, Individual psychotherapy, Telemedicine/telehealth therapy, Abnormal involuntary movement scale
Pharmacotherapies
- Chlorpromazine
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- Loxapine
- Perphenazine
- Pimozide
- Prochlorperazine
- Thiothixene
- Thioridazine
- Trifluoperazine
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Brexpiprazole
- Clozapine
- Lurasidone
- Olanzapine
- Paliperidone
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Ziprasidone
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
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