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Los Angeles Public Mental Health

Providers, Services, Locations and More

By City of Los Angeles [source]

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About this dataset

Welcome to the Provider Directory of Publicly Funded Mental Health Providers in the County of Los Angeles, offering psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services, fee-for-service (FFS) psychiatric inpatient facilities, community outreach, forensic care and specialized foster care. This directory has been designed to provide helpful information regarding providers throughout the county who are dedicated to providing quality mental health services. In this directory you can find valuable data including provider names, addresses, phone numbers, identification numbers for service areas, terms of service variety such as advocacy/outreach programs and age groups served as well as language/cultures supported by these providers. The Provider Directory also offers Service Area Demographic profiles that outline number of clients served; languages (American Sign Language included); number of providers; type(s) and geographical distribution of mental health services within certain service areas. To easily locate a provider nearest you can use our online DMH Provider Locator which provides search locations along with estimated distances from your starting location complete with driving directions. With this comprehensive look into publicly-funded mental health programs across Los Angeles County navigating towards a more accessible better quality healthcare journey is right at your fingertips!

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How to use the dataset

Welcome to the Provider Directory of Publicly Funded Mental Health Providers in the County of Los Angeles. This dataset contains information about mental health providers in Los Angeles County, including provider names, zip codes, service areas, provider classifications, programs/services offered, age groups served, language/cultures served and operations. The objective of this dataset is to provide users with a directory of publicly funded mental health services for organizing and finding providers in their local area.

In this guide we will discuss how you can use this dataset most effectively.

The first step is to identify your search criteria by understanding what type of service you need from a mental health provider. Are you looking for psychiatric or outpatient services? Are there any age or language requirements? These are all important questions that can help narrow down your search when using the dataset.
Secondly, locate the columns related to your desired criteria within the dataset (see above). For example if you are searching for certain types of services then look at “Programs/Services” column and find out what options are available in there; if any specific language is needed then take a look at “Language/Cultures” column and so on. This will allow you to pinpoint which fields give us closer matches with our search criteria..
Thirdly, use the data within those specific columns to identify potential matches based on what your needs are - From “Location 1” field capture addresses while from “Phone Numbers” grab potential contact numbers that might be useful during further correspondence; If required double-check against Service Areas using maps corresponding reference key provided in “Service Area (SA)” column before deciding upon them as best-fit solutions overall .

Finally check out one more time before finalizing by taking another brief glance into all other columns as well just for confirmation i-e Age Groups Served etc; Does it make sense geographically , mentally ? Is it operationally possible under prevailing circumstances keeping socio-political dynamic pandemic scenarios in view ? . If everything seems sound then go ahead with recording such details about providers obtained so far for later reference & enjoy dealing with them without having any further worries or reservations ..

Using these steps listed above should assist users successfully navigate through this directory efficiently while finding suitable service providers quickly according its comprehensive information contained here efficiently accessible .

Research Ideas

• The dataset can be used to develop an interactive map that allows users to find the closest public mental health services in their area.
• The data could be utilized to create personalized mental health resource guides and fact sheets with information tailored to individual zip codes and service areas.
• This dataset can be used as a reference for creating additional datasets with more granular data, such as patient demographics, care models being implemented, success rates of various treatments, etc

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
Data Source

License

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication
No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: Department_of_Mental_Health__DMH__Provider_Directory.csv

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
If you use this dataset in your research, please credit City of Los Angeles.