title: A rural mental health delivery system.
abstract: The Four Corners Community Mental Health Center, located in southeastern Utah, was established in March 1972 to begin the difficult task of bringing comprehensive community mental health services to a vast, sparsely populated multiethnic region whose residents had no previous experience with mental health programs. The staff, facing obstacles such as long distances between patients' home, cultural barriers, and a mistrust of mental health programs, set up a diverse delivery system using two central offices, nine satellite clinics, and a psychiatric wing at a general hospital in Price. In 1973 the center applied for and received a construction grant to build a five-bed psychiatric wing at the hospital. Outreach workers and indigenous volunteers help bridge the cultural barriers and take the services to the people.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D012424:Rural Population; D014589:Utah; D014838:Volunteers