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About Owyhee Community Health Facility

Type of Care

1. Substance use treatment

Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).

2. Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Refers to treatment services intended to help their clients’ ability to function as a result of substance use and/or mental disorders. By definition, serious mental illness is someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. For people under the age of 18, the term ‟Serious Emotional Disturbance” refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in the past year, which resulted in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities.

Type of Opioid Treatment

1. Buprenorphine maintenance

2. Relapse prevention with naltrexone

Program or group specifically tailored for relapse prevention from Naltrexone which helps people retrain their minds and behaviors to avoid alcohol as a solution to emotional or psychological triggers.

3. Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

4. Prescribes buprenorphine

5. Prescribes naltrexone

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

1. Buprenorphine used in Treatment

Buprenorphine is used in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to help people reduce or quit their use of heroin or other opiates.

2. Naltrexone used in Treatment

Pharmacotherapies

1. Naltrexone (oral)

2. Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)

3. Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

Medications that do not contain nicotine but are designed to reduce a person's craving for tobacco. Some common examples are Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin) and Nortriptyline (Pamelor). Medications are often prescribed in conjunction with counseling or support groups to provide the best chance for achieving long-term smoking abstinence. (http://www.mayoclinic.com)

4. Buprenorphine with naloxone

A prescription medication that combines buprenorphine (which helps relieve symptoms of opiate withdrawal) and naloxone (reverse the effects of narcotics) used to treat opioid addiction.

5. Medication for mental disorders

Treatment Approaches

1. Cognitive behavioral therapy

Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.

2. Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.

3. Substance use disorder counseling

A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.

4. Trauma-related counseling

Multiple types of therapy designed to treat clients suffering from a traumatic event(s).

5. Brief intervention

A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.

6. Motivational interviewing

A counseling approach which acknowledges that many people experience ambivalence when deciding to make changes. The aim is not to focus immediately on the action of changing, but to work to enhance motivation to change.

7. Anger management

Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.

8. Matrix Model

Provides a framework for substance abuse users to obtain the ability to cease drug use, stay in treatment, and participate in an educational program on addiction and relapse. Users are provided with direction and support from a trained therapist and are introduced to self-help programs.

9. Relapse prevention

A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.

Facility Smoking Policy

1. Smoking permitted in designated area

A designated area in which smoking is permitted.

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

1. Outpatient

Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.

2. Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment

3. Regular outpatient treatment

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

1. Tribal government

A governing body of a group of Native American Indians or Alaska Natives that qualifies as an Indian tribal government determined by the Internal Revenue Services.

License/Certification/Accreditation

1. State Substance use treatment agency

Government organization responsible for planning, organizing, delivering, and monitoring substance use disorder services in their respective state.

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

1. Medicaid

A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.

2. Medicare

The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.

3. Private health insurance

4. Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs

Financial assistance provided by the federal, state, or local government for substance use treatment.

5. IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds

Direct funds from the Indian Health Service. They consist of tribal funds through "638 contracts" (named after the public law under which they were authorized) and/or urban funds through federal Title 5 grants. These funds are considered part of the Indian healthcare system and can be used for programs that provide behavioral health services as well as for programs that provide other health-related services.

Special Programs/Groups Offered

1. Adolescents

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Adolescents.

Ancillary Services

1. Case management service

Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

2. Suicide prevention services

Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.

3. Mental health services

Assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling in a professional relationship to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness, symptoms, conditions or disorders.

4. Transportation assistance

Assessment/Pre-treatment

1. Screening for tobacco use

Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.

2. Comprehensive mental health assessment

An examination used to determine if a patient is functioning on a healthy psychological, social, or developmental level. It can also be used to aid diagnosis of some neurological disorders, specific diseases, or possible drug abuse.

3. Comprehensive substance use assessment

4. Interim services for clients

5. Outreach to persons in the community

6. Screening for mental disorders

Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of mental health conditions and needs treatment.

7. Screening for substance use

Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.

Education and Counseling Services

1. Individual counseling

Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

2. Group counseling

Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.

3. Family counseling

A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts.

4. Marital/couples counseling

5. Substance use disorder education

Age Groups Accepted

1. Children/Adolescents

Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.

Gender Accepted

1. Female

Female

2. Male

Male

Transitional Services

1. Aftercare/continuing care

2. Discharge Planning

A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.

3. Naloxone and overdose education

Recovery Support Services

1. Self-help groups

Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.

External Opioid Medications Source

1. In-network prescribing entity

2. Other contracted prescribing entity

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

1. Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

2. This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

1. In-network prescribing entity

2. Other contracted prescribing entity

Facility Vaping Policy

1. Vaping permitted in designated area

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Contact:
775-757-2415
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Address:
P.o. Box 130
NV, Owyhee, 89832, Elko