Ray Bailey, youth suicide prevention program manager at the Utah Department of Human Services, talks with Mikelle Moore, senior vice president and chief community health officer at Intermountain Healthcare, after a press conference at the Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Center in Murray on Friday, July 2, 2021.
Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an all-time high in mental health issues across the world and a collaboration of health care partners in Utah aims to help.
Intermountain Healthcare in Murray has joined with the Utah Department of Human Services, Latino Behavioral Health and the Utah Pride Center to address mental health crisis related to COVID-19 by connecting the partner organizations to community contributions totaling $67 million to improve access to mental health care for marginalized people in Utah.
MURRAY The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an all-time high in mental health issues across the world and a collaboration of health care partners in Utah aims to help.
Intermountain Healthcare has joined with the Utah Department of Human Services, Latino Behavioral Health and the Utah Pride Center to address the COVID-related mental health crisis by connecting the partner organizations to community contributions totaling $67 million to improve access to mental healthcare for marginalized people in Utah.
Utah in particular has struggled to address mental health even before the pandemic, ranking last in the nation for mental health access and sixth highest in the nation for suicide deaths per capita in 2019.