Tricare Outpatient Clinic

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About

Operated by Naval Medical Center San Diego, the Tricare Outpatient Clinic in Chula Vista's Eastlake area delivers primary care, mental health services, and substance-use treatment to active-duty servicemembers, military dependents, and retirees from its Boswell Road facility. The Department of Defense facility opened in 2013 and serves the same beneficiary population that accesses long-term residential support at Veterans Home of CA Chula Vista, creating a continuum from active-duty primary care through post-service support. On-site pharmacy and laboratory services eliminate the need for off-campus appointments, consolidating routine blood draws, prescription fulfillment, and primary care visits into a single Boswell Road location within the Eastlake community. The clinic's integration of addiction treatment and mental health counseling reflects the military's Psychological Health Pathway model, offering behavioral health screening alongside standard medical appointments for servicemembers and their families. Patients requiring specialty diagnostics or emergency intervention beyond the clinic's scope receive expedited referrals to UC San Diego Health Express Care - Eastlake and the full-service emergency department at Naval Medical Center San Diego. The facility's team-based care pods group physicians, nurses, and corpsmen into integrated units handling simultaneous medical, behavioral, and readiness assessments — a configuration designed to process complex multi-system evaluations for deployment-eligible personnel.