Many community mental health centers have bad to operate with less funding in the past
several years, especially since the advent of block grant funding. Evidence is now …

Community mental health centers are subject to a number of pressures that will affect the
way centers operate in the years ahead. These influences include a reduction infederal …

What happens to community mental health centers when federal funding declines and then
ends? Analysis of service utilization patterns over a five year period for a cohort of …

The author describes the history and implications of recent legislation affecting community
mental health centers. New legislative requirements will result in centers seeing typically …

The orignal intent of community mental health centers was that they would treat the mentally
ill. The more than 750 centers now operating are drifting away from that health service …

Community mental health centers (CMHCs) have made a significant contribution to making
mental health services available to many Americans; in 1977 they served almost two million …

The original model for the community mental health center was a health-oriented treatment
facility associated with a community hospital, operated under medical leadership, and …

The results of a, survey of 71 directors of community mental health centers in 15 states in
1982 and 1983 indicate that CMHCs made major changes in their services, staffing, sources …

The community mental health center (CMHC) movement, largely conceived by psychiatrists
to improve standards of mental health care nationally, appears to be going through an …

The presence of psychiatrists in community mental health centers has diminished in recent
years, especially in centers that are non-hospital-based and that are located in rural or …