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Kansas No Longer a Leader in Mental Health Care / Part Two

By Jim McLean
Published July 26, 2016 at 6:30 AM CDT
Under the Surface: Mental Health in Kansas
Under the Surface: Mental Health in Kansas

In the years between World War II and John F. Kennedy’s presidency, Kansas transformed its mental health system. Taking what had been among the nation’s worst systems, and turning it into one of the best. A new round of reforms rejuvenated the system in the early 1990s. But as Heartland Health Monitor’sJim McLean reports, the failure of successive governors and legislatures to fund those reforms is now threatening to reverse years of progress and the future of the state’s largest mental health hospital.

Jim McLean is a reporter for the KHI News Service in Topeka and a contributor to Heartland Health Monitor, a reporting collaboration that looks at health issues in Kansas and Missouri.

This is part two in an occasional series on the state of mental health care in Kansas. Click here for part one. 

 
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Jim McLean
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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