Soon all mental health/addiction services will be done by one company.

Gary Blanchard

Gary Blanchard

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Over the past 10 years, I have watched small treatment programs get swallowed up by larger corporations. I just got notice today that one of these large corporations was just "merged" with another; they are now one mega corporation. One program down the street from me was Valley Human Services. Then they became The Carson Center: Valley Human Services. Now they will be called The Carson Center: Valley Human Services, a program of Behavioral Health Network, Inc.

The worst of it is, the larger these places get, the more impersonal the care. Sad.
 
All of my mental health/addiction services are done by Anheuser-Busch. Not really, I'm a big fan of a lot of the local breweries, too. :embarrassed:

That sucks, man. Seems to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there's more money for research and tech and stuff, but on hte other hand, like you said, you lose the small business touches.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
Over the past 10 years, I have watched small treatment programs get swallowed up by larger corporations. I just got notice today that one of these large corporations was just "merged" with another; they are now one mega corporation. One program down the street from me was Valley Human Services. Then they became The Carson Center: Valley Human Services. Now they will be called The Carson Center: Valley Human Services, a program of Behavioral Health Network, Inc.

The worst of it is, the larger these places get, the more impersonal the care. Sad.
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Seems to be a trend across most of the medical community (as well as many others). It sucks indeed.
 
That does suck.

For my IOP, I used a local psych hospital that has a lgbt specific program. It was very good for me. I'm currently using a community mental health center for my therapist needs.
 
My counseling right now is through a local organization. Any big conglomerate has upsides and downsides. Usually the downsides outnumber the upsides in the long run. But larger businesses seem to be the inevitable result of a growing population.
 
The local corporation that just got swallowed has actively sought every grant that it can get, and has gotten so large and diverse that it doesn't seem to be able to do any one thing efficiently. There are two programs that they have been promising the community that have never come to fruition, and they can have up to a six month waiting period to see one of their clinicians. I think the longest wait I have ever had is two weeks, and that for people with difficult schedules. This has little effect on me in the long run, other than the fact that these big corporations can pay to get attention from the media. Word of mouth, however, has kept me in business.
 
wok said:
It's already done by one company here. The gubment :embarrassed:
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Ah, but the gubment pays for it and contracts with providers. Plus that actually helps create a level playing field. That's as far as I dare go without sending this into a political barrage. :wink:
 
The same thing is happening to many medical doctor's offices. Mrs. T's clinic is being bought by a new hospital, but her and her doctor or jumping off that clusterfuck and going to another clinic.

We at least got to grow up when independent farms, grocery stores, pharmacies, and hardware stores were the norm.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
Over the past 10 years, I have watched small treatment programs get swallowed up by larger corporations. I just got notice today that one of these large corporations was just "merged" with another; they are now one mega corporation. One program down the street from me was Valley Human Services. Then they became The Carson Center: Valley Human Services. Now they will be called The Carson Center: Valley Human Services, a program of Behavioral Health Network, Inc.

The worst of it is, the larger these places get, the more impersonal the care. Sad.
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I am a bit cynical about mental health care in Idaho. Most mental health care of any serious nature is done in the prison system. Barbaric. Addiction care is not super centralized, and there are good people doing it independently. But the need far outweighs the service provided, particularly any service to the indigent.
 
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And that company will be owned by the same company that owns the prisons. And that supplies and cleans prison uniforms. And s prison food. They’ll also own a large holdings in gun companies that supply to police and military. And they’ll be one of the biggest campaign contributors in America.
 
wok said:
It's already done by one company here. The gubment :embarrassed:
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Same here, but you have a choice of private providers as well.
The private providers tend to be better, and the government programs are well and truly underfunded..
 
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