Jonesboro, AR – JonesboroRightNow.com – Arisa Health, which is the designated community mental health center (CMHC) in 41 counties in Arkansas, including all of Northeast Arkansas, will not submit a bid to the State of Arkansas for a new CMHC contract.
Arisa Health provides various mental health services to uninsured, underinsured, Medicaid, and other vulnerable populations. It is funded through state and federal funding. Arisa currently operates a clinic in each of the 41 counties it serves.
According to a statement released to Jonesboro Right Now, the organization said while it had “absorbed” funding gaps in the past, the level of supplemental support required in the most recent community mental health center services contract cycle had “grown exponentially and is no longer sustainable.”…