Aurora Mental Health Center officials are fast to offer a short list of critical observations about their industry and about their community. Top among them is, “We’re an industry undergoing a lot of change right now,” said AuMHC CEO Kelly Phillips-Henry.
Change has been the mantra for AuMHC for its 30-year history. The once small community mental health project has evolved into a vast array of services, with annual revenues and expenditures averaging about $50 million a year.
It operates on about the same budget as the Tri-County Health Department, the largest in the state, serving 1.2 million people across three sprawling counties.
AuMHC reports it provided treatment to just over 19,000 people with almost a half-million appointments.