Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Jessica Brisbois, LICSW, manager of acute mental health services at Children's Minnesota, posed for a portrait at in the pediatric inpatient mental health unit at Children's Minnesota in St. Paul.
Minnesotans in mental health crises are stuck in hospital emergency rooms with nowhere else to turn. Treatment centers are bleeding staff who complain of being underpaid and burnt out. Children linger on months-long waitlists for therapy.
The state's system is failing to meet increasingly crushing demands. Those who work in mental and behavioral health and addiction services repeatedly point to a common theme at the center of the problem: Reimbursement rates from the state are not sufficient to cover their cost of doing the work.
A long-awaited state study released Wednesday illuminates just how far off the rates have gotten and proposes a plan to better align the figures with reality.
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