Same-day psychiatric care, expanded across state lines
Mindful Care, the multi-state same-day mental health platform, continues to extend its operating footprint into the markets where the access gap is the widest.
The phrase “behavioral health access” describes, in policy language, the experience that a person in psychiatric distress has when they attempt to schedule a visit with a clinician. The clinician, in the median U.S. market, has a wait time measured in weeks. The patient, in the median U.S. market, has a wait time measured in the time it takes them to give up.
The patient, in the median U.S. market, has a wait time measured in the time it takes them to give up.Sopris Editorial
Mindful Care, headquartered in West Hempstead, New York, was founded to address that gap operationally rather than rhetorically. The company offers same-day psychiatric care across a growing list of states, combining in-person clinics with a virtual-care layer, and accepts most major commercial and government insurance plans. Patients are seen in a matter of hours, not weeks.
The firm’s Growth strategy has held a position in the company through several stages of its expansion. Mark Groner, the strategy’s managing partner, serves on the board. The expansion playbook has not changed materially since the company’s earliest stages: identify states where the licensure environment, payer mix, and unmet demand are all favorable, build clinics with full-time clinicians, and route triage through the virtual layer.
What is increasingly clear about behavioral health, as a category, is that the difference between a system that works for patients and a system that does not is rarely the medicine. It is the calendar. Mindful Care has built around the calendar. It is, in a category given to abstraction, a literally operational answer.