4/4/2013 – Albany, NY – At their March meeting, the Mental Health Services Council of the New York State Office of Mental Health reviewed and approved La Salle School for Boys application for an OMH license to operate an outpatient mental clinic for adolescents.
“This [license] opens up new funding streams, new impacts and services in the community and an integrated behavioral health delivery system key to the Affordable Care Act,” said Katharine Briar-Lawson, LaSalle Trustee and Dean of UAlbany’s School of Social Welfare.
Fellow LaSalle Trustee Robert McMahon agreed saying “as the system transitions to medicaid managed care, LaSalle is better positioned with Health Homes and Managed Care companies with their mental health, preventive, residential, OASAS, and now mental health clinics to be a major provider.” McMahon is retired Executive Director from SCO Family of Services.
LaSalle expects that it will take several months for this new clinic to become operational.
For futher information about LaSalle’s new OMH Licensure, email information@lasalle-school.org.