The Independence MHI is one of Iowa's four mental health facilities that provide short-term psychiatric treatment for severe mental illness. The facility has 75 beds for adults and juveniles.

The Cherokee Mental Health Institute in Cherokee, Iowa, on Monday. After Gov. Terry Branstad's administration closed two of Iowa's four mental health institutes this year, some Cherokee residents ...

Branstad says after repeated recommendations over the past 40 years to close the state-run Mental Health Institutes in Clarinda and Mount Pleasant, it’s time to take action.

The now-shuttered Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute in Iowa. The former Clarinda Mental Health Institute. DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad acted within his constitutional ...

The development of crisis and jail diversion services will further reduce the need for acute inpatient psychiatric beds. Southwest Iowa is in the process of developing crisis and stabilization ...

Homan said Iowa lags behind other states in mental health care options and the absence of replacement community based services will only worsen the situation. Clarinda’s MHI has offered care to ...

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Late last year, when the Governor's and Lt. Governor's budget rolled out, there was a funding line missing; no appropriations to keep the Mount Pleasant and Clarinda Mental Health Institutes (MHI ...

A top state official says Iowa is providing better mental health care after an overhaul of the system, though critics question the recent closure of two state-run mental health institutes.

Iowa’s neediest citizens took a big hit, with a number of programs either receiving greatly reduced funding, or getting cut altogether. The bill is about $61 million dollars short of the Senate ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad is rejecting a proposal to cut staff and beds at Iowa's mental health institutions because of budget cuts.