What is the Public Mental Health System (PMHS)?
The public mental health system (PMHS) includes any services funded or monitored by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene of the State of Maryland. Services provided in the PMHS include: psychiatric inpatient care, partial hospitalization, residential treatment, respite, outpatient mental health clinics (OMHC), individual mental health practitioner services, psychiatric rehabilitation programs (PRP), residential rehabilitation programs (RRP), mobile treatment services, supported living services, supported employment and vocational services, case management services and residential crisis services. Service providers are credentialed and contracted by DHMH. Most PMHS service providers take public health insurance (Medicaid, Medicare, Medical Assistance), though some may also accept private health insurance. For more information about the PMHS, visit the Mental Hygiene Administrations website here.
