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Applications from organizations that want to become community behavioral health clinics being accepted

For Immediate Release: March 21, 2016

LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications from organizations that want to become certified community behavioral health clinics.

Michigan is among the states that can certify qualified nonprofit organizations, governmental authorities and tribal health organizations as community behavioral health clinics. These clinics will serve adults with serious mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbance and people with long-term and serious substance use disorders.

The state intends to certify up to 10 clinics statewide – with considerations given to at least one urban and one rural clinic – as part of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, a demonstration project of the Excellence in Mental Health Act sponsored by U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.

Under an MDHHS request for certification, applicants should electronically submit their applicant responses and related materials using www.buy4michigan.com. Applications are due by 3 p.m. April 25, 2016.

For technical assistance entering bid responses, contact the help desk at 888-734-9749. Technical questions related to the request for certification content will be accepted until 3 p.m. April 5, 2016. All questions should be emailed to smitht65@michigan.gov.

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