Many programs were already operating with deficits due to inadequate rates, and the pandemic reduced revenues further while adding new expenses. In this growing crisis, the services provided by Maine’s community-based mental health and substance use treatment providers are being severely impacted – both in the ability to deliver outpatient and residential services and the dramatically increasing needs of Mainers as they endure this pandemic. Even before COVID-19, lack of access to timely, high-quality treatment was the greatest barrier to a healthier America. We are in the midst of a trifecta – the COVID epidemic, a rapid economic collapse based on this epidemic, and a powerful movement for racial justice. Maine Voices: COVID crisis hits behavioral health Community-based providers of mental health and substance use disorder services may not survive if the state doesn’t release federal funds.
View the article online through the link below or read the copied article, below. This article was published by the Portland Press Herald, which requires a subscription to read online articles.
0 kommentar(er)
