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Community crisis care, CCBHCs and clubhouses highlighted as ways to divert admissions from state hospitals
Summary
Community behavioral‑health providers told legislators that certified community behavioral health clinics, crisis stabilization units and peer‑run clubhouses can divert many patients from state psychiatric hospitals — but each requires stable funding and trained staff.
Lawmakers heard multiple presentations showing community‑based alternatives that reduce demand for high‑acuity state hospital beds — but each requires funding and trained staff.
Key points
- Association of Community Mental Health Centers (ACMHC) and local providers described the statewide rollout of CCBHC certification: all 26 Kansas CMHCs are now certified CCBHCs, a model that expands crisis response, mobile crisis teams and evidence‑based practices and moves providers to a prospective payment system intended to reimburse the full cost of services. ACMHC witnesses reported…
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