Distance between communities, staff shortages and few beds for crisis patients all are barriers for patients and the professionals who treat them in Wyoming.
A mental health urgent care clinic, the first of its kind in Wyoming, will open sometime this fall in Cheyenne, its company’s president told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.
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In a rural state like Wyoming, with limited funding and even sparser population centers, it can be difficult to provide adequate mental health care services. In many cases, jail is the dumping-off spot for people having a mental health care crisis.
Wyoming is off-track when it comes to roadway safety and mental health services, a recent National Safety Council summary revealed.
Wyoming’s suicide rates could rise as income loss and isolation caused by the coronavirus pandemic hits home, but for now, suicide hotlines are reporting normal call volumes
As the U.S. Air Force reports that suicides among airmen have increased in 2019, two women serving at Cheyenne’s F.E. Warren Air Force Base are urging service members to rely on their “wingmen” for help when they are hurting.
Services at the Cheyenne Veterans Affairs Medical Center remain largely intact a year after the Department of Veteran Affairs downgraded an administrative ranking for the facility, a VA spokesperson said.
A sense of “rugged individualism” may contribute to the fact that the Mountain West states have some of the highest suicide rates in the nation, according to an expert in Cheyenne.
