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Mental Health Providers: Budget Cuts “Devastating” System

By Jim McLean
Published July 7, 2016 at 2:14 PM CDT
Heartland Health Monitor is a reporting collaborative involving multiple, non-profit, news outlets, including KPR. Its focus is to report on health issues affecting the Midwest.
Heartland Health Monitor is a reporting collaborative involving multiple, non-profit, news outlets, including KPR. Its focus is to report on health issues affecting the Midwest.

Recent cuts in Medicaid reimbursement rates ordered by Governor Sam Brownback and other reductions in state funding are “devastating” the Kansas mental health system. That’s according to the association that represents 26 community mental health centers across the state. More from Heartland Health Monitor’s Jim McLean.

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Jim McLean is a reporter for the KHI News Service and a contributor to Heartland Health Monitor, a reporting collaboration focused on health issues and their impact in Kansas and Missouri. The partners - KCUR, KCPT Public Television, the KHI News Service and Kansas Public Radio - strive to bring listeners and readers timely, accurate and comprehensive coverage of a topic that leaves no one untouched.

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Jim McLean, Executive Editor of KHI News Service, oversees the KHI News Service. From 2005 until 2013, McLean coordinated all communications activities at KHI as Vice President for Public Affairs. The position he now occupies was created as part of a strategic initiative to solidify the editorial and operational independence of the KHI News Service. Prior to coming to KHI, McLean had a distinguished career as a journalist, serving as the news director and Statehouse bureau chief for Kansas Public Radio and a managing editor for the Topeka Capital-Journal. During his more than 20 years in Kansas journalism, McLean won numerous awards for journalistic excellence from the Kansas Press Association, regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 1997, McLean and two Capital-Journal colleagues received the Burton W. Marvin News Enterprise Award from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism for a series of stories on the state’s business climate. McLean holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washburn University.
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