What are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)? It is run by the Federal Government and driven by Medicare. “The FQHC benefit under the Medicare was added effective October 1, 1991” (CMS FQHC fact sheet, n.d.). It is to ensure that all Americans regardless if they can pay for medical services is offered the same care of an individual with paying health care insurance. This service is mostly popular in the rural area of the States.…
This article focuses on the Colorado Mental Health Institute of Pueblo. (CMHIP) is one of Colorado's two state-operated inpatient psychiatric hospitals. The hospital is under the direction of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS), Office of Behavioral Health. Colorado recognized a tremendous need for a mental health component in the community’s. Currently CMHIP serves clients in the civil mental health system along with the civil adult clients who are referred for admission by various entities including the state’s Community Mental Health Centers. CMHIP also provides services for at risk youth and the elder population. CMHIP also serves adults who are found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity or Incompetent to proceed. CMHIP’s declares their focus and desire is to provide quality mental health services utilizing tools such as Trauma Informed Care and Recovery principles. CMHIP claims to focus on hope and promoting recovery for all Colorado residents.…
“Who is my father,” I questioned. This had gone on long enough. I know he was a bad person. I know he’s dead. I will find out who he is, no matter what.…
The objective of the block grants for community mental health services program is to provide territories and states with assistance financially in the making of their plans to provide mental health services to adults and children, as well as monitoring all progress and providing technical assistance.…
association for a newly emerging group of counselors who said that their practice was “mental…
These members are healthcare organizations and management entities that provide treatment and support within their community. Every year they provide billions of dollars for psychiatric crisis services; addiction prevention programs; outpatient medication and psychotherapy; community education; and rehabilitation to name a few. These services are funded through federal, state and local grants; Medicaid; Medicare; and commercial insurance. Affiliate members of the National Council for Behavioral Health are healthcare vendors that offer a wide range of services and products, such as accreditation; consultant and technical assistance; insurance; managed care; health information technology systems; and pharmacy. The key health care issue of this stakeholder and its members is ensuring that adults and children have access to mental health and substance use treatment. On behalf of the millions of Americans that struggle with mental health and substance use disorders, they advocate for policies that will ensure these individuals have access to the needed services. With the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the National Council created a timeline for implementation of the major provisions in the ACA.…
The state of California for a long time has been facing enormous problems due to the growing number of people with mental health issues. Almost every family is touched by the issue of mental health. In California, either someone from the family suffers from mental health issues, or someone very close to family does. The state of California therefore has to overcome tremendous spending to bear with the consequences of this growing number of mental health issues. As a result, the state came up with proposition known as proposition 63 aimed at helping California overcome the colossal charges that mental health imposed on the state’s budget. By November 2004, proposition 63 now called Mental Health Services Act or MHSA was voted and…
According to Woodside (2011) Community based care in correctional facilities provides educational services, counseling, substance abuse programs, and employment assistance. They are designed to take inmates from prisons and jails and place them in the community supervised planned programs to help integrate them back into society, by helping them accept responsibility and to take the initiative to want to help…
In a publication “The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court (2007)” explains that how mental health courts are a recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon. This interpretation discusses in the late 1990s only a few courts were accepting cases of this nature. Since then numerous mental health courts have been established to examine defendant’s cases that suffer with a mental illnesses. According to the publication “The Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court (2007)” these courts emphasized their differences and their diversity is undeniable; the similarities across mental health courts share common characteristics.…
Participation across the program as well as community outreach contacted indicated 717 contacts on average per day in the Clubhouse programs surveyed (Potnick and Salzer, 2008). Researchers in this study also discuss another widely used, evidence-based model that is standard in Pennsylvania called the Partial Hospitalization Model (PHP) which encompasses community housing of clients, but involves clients spending up to seven days a week in a Community Mental Health Center or hospital setting (Potnick and Salzer, 2008). So this section of the study in essence compares a model where SPMI individuals participate in informal community support (Clubhouse) to SPMI individuals who commute to formal community support services (institutions). The researchers assert that both programs make a substantial impact on reducing psychiatric inpatient admissions and address various symptoms/concerns in this population. Potnick and Salzer (2008) do maintain both Clubhouse mode as well as PHPs as evidence based practices and strongly argue in favor of their benefits and necessity, but in an analysis of cost to outcomes, conclude that in Pennsylvania that Clubhouses yield 43 percent less cost than the PHP’s. Contributors to this may include the fact that PHP’s are reimbursed higher, although they provide less hours of contact than Clubhouses. The researchers note that if the PHP provided as many units of services, due to this increase, the difference state wide in cost would be around 7.5 million dollars (Potnick and Salzer,…
Describe the major components of the Sociological Model of Mental Illness and compare it to the Medical Model of Mental Illness. What evidence exists that supports the Sociological Model of Mental Illness? What evidence exists that supports the Medical Model of Mental Illness? (Approximately 2-4 paragraphs)…
* Section 1 of the mental health act 1983 was amended in 2007. This section of the act defines a mental disorder as 'any disorder or disability of mind ' it goes on to state that a “learning disability” is define as a state of arrested or incomplete development of the mind which also includes impairment of intelligence and social functioning (MHOL, 2010).…
State mental hospitals began releasing thousands of patients with chronic and severe psychiatric disorders into communities that lacked resources to provide an alternative.…
Overall, with an increase in funding in the mental health industry, people and its communities can have the chance to seek for the help they need.…
This essay will state the legal obligations and rights in relation to the case study focusing on Community Care Law, Mental Health issues, anti-discriminatory issues and will show linkages between the different laws and issues raised throughout the essay. This essay will also identify, define and apply these various laws and issues to the case study appropriately including what assistance can be sought for the family involved and various assessments that can be carried out.…
