Grass roots effort to improve military focused healthcare.

Bahia Health

Specialized behavioral health services tailored to the unique needs of active-duty military personnel, their dependents, and veterans. Our team of clinicians comes with a wealth of experience and relevant backgrounds, including military service and expertise in trauma-related mental health issues. Our comprehensive approach ensures personalized, evidence-based care designed to address the specific challenges and stressors associated with military life and service.

Our commitment to you.

  • Welcoming patients of all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and religious and/or political affiliations
  • Integrating biological, psychological and social science in practice
  • Individually tailored assessment/treatment
  • Patient empowerment
  • Maximizing health with calming and connecting environment
  • Utilizing the knowledge/skill/technology of modern medicine
  • Strive to work collaboratively
  • Effective communication and business practices

This practice reinforces that the patient is a key stakeholder in integrated care. Patient-centered care is defined as health care that establishes a partnership among practitioners, patients, and their families (when appropriate) to ensure that decisions respect patients’ wants, needs, and preferences and that patients have the education and support they need to make decisions and participate in their own care.

Our view that a person’s assets and virtues enable individuals and communities to thrive. We believe that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of family, love, work, and play.

The biopsychosocial approach emphasizes the importance of understanding human health and illness in their fullest contexts. The biopsychosocial approach systematically considers biological, psychological, and social factors and their complex interactions in understanding health, illness, and health care delivery. Biological, psychological (which entails thoughts, emotions, and behaviors), and social (socio-economical, socio-environmental, and cultural) factors, all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of improving disorder.

While the biomedical approach takes the reductionistic view that all phenomena are best understood at the lowest level of natural systems (e.g., cellular or molecular), the biopsychosocial approach recognizes that different clinical scenarios may be most usefully understood scientifically at several levels of the natural systems continuum e.g. biosphere, society-nation, culture-subculture, community, family, two-person, person (experience-behavior), nervous system, organ/organ systems, tissues, cells, organelles, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.

Integration of research and clinical skills to make more informed and evidence-based decisions regarding treatment.

Our clinician’s subscribe to a scientist/practitioner model that includes:

  • Giving psychological assessment, testing, and intervention in accordance with scientifically based protocols
  • Accessing and integrating scientific findings to make informed healthcare decisions for patients
  • Questioning and testing hypotheses that are relevant to current healthcare
  • Building and maintaining effective cross-disciplinary relationships with professionals in other fields
  • Research-based training and support to other health professions in the process of providing psychological care
  • Contribute to practice-based research and development to improve the quality of health care

This practice creates partnership with our patients, psychiatric professionals, primary care physicians and healthcare professionals. We aim to create efficient processes of communication and systems that make it easy to apply consistent guidelines and protocols across treatment settings.

Partners in Health

Dr. Zaragoza – Navy Psychiatrist and Dr. Hodges Coronado psychologist (focused on providing care to military families, sailors, submariners , special forces, aviation, and marines) recognized the gaps in care for the military community.  To address the gaps, they were inspired to create Bahia Health a military focused clinic.  In the development of Bahia Health, we set out to understand and clarify military and military family needs.  We identified the unique aspects of military life e.g. deployment, medical board process, limited duty, medication restrictions, exceptional family needs and requirements for specialized communities (special forces, aviation) and integrated within our healthcare approach. This integration facilitates communication and improved health outcomes for individuals and the military.