Brainerd VA Clinic

About Brainerd VA Clinic – Brainerd, Minnesota

Brainerd VA Clinic is an outpatient facility located in the beautiful lake town of Brainerd in Minnesota. This facility is known for delivering quality and individualized care for veterans. The facility offers primary care and specialty services including mental health care and smoke cessation. Their services are low-cost and they also accept Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE. You can even fund your treatment through VA financial hardship assistance if you’re uninsured and having financial challenges.

You’ll especially find their comprehensive and secured telehealth services very convenient. This includes video conferencing and home telehealth services.

They even provide secure store-and-forward telehealth that lets you securely send or receive health information to and from your community VA facilities. They support same day appointments and walk-in express care for emergency health issues. You may even access care if you’re not enrolled in the VA health care.

Their outpatient mental health care addresses common psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety and PTSD. This program can also help veterans overcome substance use disorders (SUD) and co-occurring conditions. The latter is when you’re simultaneously dealing with both mental conditions and addictive behaviors.

The facility supports and equips you with relevant recovery tools to overcome these behavioral conditions. They offer highly confidential and individualized outpatient services. This includes consultation, evaluation and individual and group therapy.

The therapy group helps you address the underlying causes of your behavioral challenges and build solid coping skills. Emphasis is on preventing relapse and maintaining sobriety. You’ll learn to manage anger and emotion better, communicate effectively and build healthy relationships.

These essential life skills promote sober living. Psychotherapeutic exercises and medication management services may also be accessible to support those with co-occurring conditions.

If you’re struggling with quitting smoking, this facility can also help you in that aspect. They offer support and strategies that complement optional nicotine replacement therapy. These may involve using FDA-approved medications to manage nicotine withdrawal and the urge to smoke. This is supported with in-person and phone-based counseling to fast-track withdrawal.

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Jaime Areizaga-Soto

Chairman of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals

Tanya Bradsher

VA Deputy Secretary

Kurt DelBene

Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer

Dr. Shereef Elnahal

Under Secretary for Health

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