Big Spring State Hospital

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Type of Care

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

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

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Testing

• TB screening
• HIV testing
• STD testing
• Laboratory testing
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Seniors or older adults
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Activity therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy

Language Services

• Spanish

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Integrated primary care services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Illness management and recovery
• Suicide prevention services
• Education services
• Diet and exercise counseling

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

• State government

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Pharmacotherapies

• Paliperidone
• Quetiapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Olanzapine
• Nicotine replacement
• Perphenazine
• Aripiprazole
• Lurasidone
• Fluphenazine
• Cariprazine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Chlorpromazine
• Haloperidol
• Clozapine
• Risperidone
• Loxapine

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicare
• Cash or self-payment
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support