Definition Community Mental Health

Community based care is designed to supplement and decrease the need for more costly inpatient mental health care delivered in hospitals.

Definition community mental health. In 1963 congress passed the community mental health centers act authorizing an appropriation of 150 million dollars to finance up to two thirds of the cost of construction of comprehensive treatment facilities in communities throughout the country. Community services include supported housing with full or partial supervision including halfway houses psychiatric wards of general hospitals including partial hospitalization local primary care medical services day centers or clubhouses community mental health centers and self help groups for mental health. Community mental health center definition a healthcare facility or network of agencies that is part of a system originally authorized by the u s.