Iowa mental health redesign promotes shift of services from county to region.

HEALTH services accessibility; ORGANIZATIONAL change; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; MENTAL health services administration

The article reports on the shift to regional-based funding and service of the mental health stake holders in Iowa, after Governor Terry Branstad has signed into law the legislation repealing the county mental health and developmental disability care system. Iowa Department of Human Services director Chuck Palmer says that the shift would benefit 5-15 percent of the state's population. Nancy Hale of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Iowa adds that shift promotes equal services.