Rating Mental Health
"Treatment works, if you can get it."
Ken Duckworth,
medical director of National Alliance on Mental illness, commenting on state-by-state analysis of mental health-care systems
HOW DID U.S. DO?
The National Alliance on Mental Illness conducted a state-by-state analysis of mental health-care systems. It gave each state an overall grade and a grade in four subcategories: infrastructure, information access, services, and recovery supports.
The national average overall grade was D. Five states (Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, South Carolina, and Wisconsin) got an overall B, and eight (Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota) got an overall F. None got an A for an overall grade.
Details can be found at www.nami.org.
HOW DID WE DO?
NAMI gave Tennessee a C- overall and a...
D for infrastructure
A for information access
D for services
B for recovery supports.
NAMI cited the following as "urgent needs" in Tennessee: "Funding," "restore former TennCare benefits," "open TennCare enrollment to all individuals with severe mental illness," "open formulary for medications," "provide funding for gaps in Medicare coverage" and "drop limit on number of prescriptions."
Source: www.nami.org
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