Support Plains Area Mental Health Center and improve the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. With 14 locations in Northwest Iowa, Plains Area Mental Health Center is easily accessible and convenient for you. To provide affordable quality mental health services to the people of the communities we serve, respecting each individual's dignity, worth, and potential for growth.
Insuring an environment of confidentiality and dedication - we put our people first. Mental health is a key part of your overall health. Brief screenings are the quickest way to determine if you or someone you care about should connect with a mental health professional. Suicide prevention starts with recognizing the warning signs and taking them seriously.
Insuring an environment of confidentiality and dedication - we put our people first. Mental health is a key part of your overall health. Brief screenings are the quickest way to determine if you or someone you care about should connect with a mental health professional. Suicide prevention starts with recognizing the warning signs and taking them seriously.
Services
In 1972, after years of planning and deliberation, the Plains Area Mental Health Center proudly opened its doors one day a week and began serving the residents of Plymouth County. During the first year, 166 patients were seen. Over the years, the organization has grown and changed in response to community needs across the region.
Plains Area Mental Health welcomes people of all ages and from all backgrounds. Our professionals collaborate with clients to create a plan which addresses specific needs and goals. A caring approach integrating evidence-based practices is designed to address life's struggles effectively in a way that is also uniquely tailored to you and your family.
This includes assessments to determine the benefits and types of medication therapy that could be used to help a client cope with a mental health problem. If medication therapy is part of a treatment plan, our professionals are capable of prescribing, monitoring and adjusting psychotropic medication to maximize treatment benefits and to help prevent or reduce adverse side effects.
Established by the Affordable Care Act, it is an additional benefit for Medicaid eligible participants and is completely free of charge. IHS is a holistic approach that ensures participants receive comprehensive and integrated care including the mind-body connection, while addressing their support needs.
Our outreach programs provide assistance to adults with serious mental illnesses. Our goal is to enhance their quality of life and help them live as independently as possible. These services are designed to provide the services and support necessary to assist adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses to live, work and enjoy recreational opportunities in community settings.
Reviews (7)
Deku Izuku
Dec 02, 2021
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Chief medical Charles Tilly is my doctor who prescribes most of my medications. I went their in 2019 after going to a facility in 2019 and when I got back home I was still seeing him. But when I went to spirit lakes facility for plains area... it was horrible. But we ain't talking about plains area spirit lake we talking about le Mars iowa plains area. Anyways... my doctor before I went to Charles tilly I was basically I was put on a good amount of medications and it was awful x.x but until I saw Charles tilly, he said to me that my main goal is to put you on less medications as possible. Also
Shiny U. Jesus
Aug 14, 2021
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Worst mental health place ever. They are lazy, unfriendly and unprofessional. They absolutely refuse to set an intake appointment....you have to just show up and sit for hours, potentially all day waiting for someone to cancel so a staff is available. They ask the most ridiculous, inapplicable questions...none of which is pertinent to anything other than their profitability.
BEWARE! Neither this agency nor its staff care one bit about people, their health or well being. If you have to choose between hell or this place....hell is a safer, more loving, more rewarding place.
BEWARE! Neither this agency nor its staff care one bit about people, their health or well being. If you have to choose between hell or this place....hell is a safer, more loving, more rewarding place.
Scott Harwick
Jul 26, 2020
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Nick Rohlf
Jan 19, 2020
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Most of their doctors are pretty good. Then there's Chuck Tilley. A year ago I met with him for the first and last time. He introduced himself as the guy in charge of the other doctors (he's not -- he's not even a proper doctor, just a PA). He then compared my medications to whiskey and suggested I stop taking one of them without explaining the importance of slowly weaning off the meds. I stopped taking it and had tremendous back pain and back spasms as a result. He also attempted to gain rapport with me by telling me he was going to talk to me the way he talks to his son. Needless to say, condescending
F. U.
Jun 11, 2019
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I love Plains in LeMars. When I moved out here 11years ago, I was having trouble finding someone to help with my meds. I became a patient of another well known facility in the area that over medicated me. I couldn't function anymore. So my regular doctor recommended "PA Tilley" as she called him. PA Tilley literally saved my life! I would recommend him in a heart beat. When I moved back home in 2014 I pretty much moved back out here in 2017 for a couple of reasons and PA Tilley was one of them. His "cocktail" as I call it worked for me and other docs wanna to mess with it. Nobody messes with my
Barry Page
Aug 24, 2017
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In our family we have one with PTSD, Bi-Polar Disorder, Agorophobia, and our 2 sons have ADHD, Autism spectrum Disorder and our youngest also has Oppisitional Defiance Disorder. The staff at plains are great. They have helped us cope with some very difficult situations. We feel we are getting the very best care available to us.
Chiyo Sumizome
Jul 04, 2016
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I have Bipolar 2, and the staff are all friendly, calm, and treat me well. I go there for therapy as well as for getting my medicine checked and they do an awesome job. Most places I've been to couldn't even help me with my mental illness because my moods were bouncing and they had no idea what to say or do. Just being here has helped me tremendously as they actually know what they are talking about. They also have options for people who can't get back and forth to the offices as well.