A rural mental health delivery system.
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.
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