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A community mental health center is a center that offers a range of mental health treatment and counseling services for both adults and children. |
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What Services do Community Mental Health Centers offer? |
Community Mental Health Centers offer these core services:
- Outpatient services, including specialized outpatient services for children, the elderly, individuals who are chronically mentally ill, and residents of the CMHC’s mental health service area who have been discharged from inpatient treatment at a mental health facility
- 24 hour-a-day emergency care services
- Day treatment, or other partial hospitalization services, or psychosocial rehabilitation services; and
- Screening for patients being considered for admission to State mental health facilities to determine the appropriateness of such admission.
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How Do You Choose a Community Mental Health Center? |
When selecting a community mental health center, you should check with the center
and verify they offer the service you or your loved ones needs.
Location is another key factor to selecting a community mental health center. To
locate a center near you, use our search tool above. You can enter a zip code, click
Search, and you will be given a list of centers in your area. |
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1. Quality –Quality is often overlooked but extremely important. WhereToFindCare.com is the only place that gives you a quality score to assist you in choosing a mental health provider: the WTFC Quality Score.
Quality data from user surveys are obtained in real-time from people who have experience with a Community Mental Health Center and have submitted a review on WhereToFindCare.com. The WTFC Quality Score is the percentage of people who rated the Community Mental Health Center on WhereToFindCare.com and said they received quality care. This experience-based satisfaction score cannot be found elsewhere today except by word of mouth.
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2. Recommendations – Check the WTFC Would You Recommend score to see if others recommend the community mental health center. |
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Word of mouth recommendations are very important. They can tell us whether we can get along with providers on a personal level. You can read other people’s experience by going to a provider’s page on WhereToFindCare.com and clicking on the Survey Results tab.
There you see how others answered survey questions, and any comments made about the provider. Also look for CareStars™ recognition. People may have left comments about exceptional caregivers at each community mental health center. CareStars™ comments give you a sense that the center employs caring individuals that will provide the service you need.
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