Who Are the Staff
CBM staff are highly experienced and fully trained, licensed professionals.
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History
Center for Behavioral Medicine (formerly known as Western Missouri Mental Health Center - WMMHC), an agency for the Department of Mental
Health, is located on Hospital Hill in the Heart of Kansas City to provide
comprehensive psychiatric care to patients from Kansas City and seven
surrounding counties. WMMHC opened in 1954 as the first racially intergrated pyschiatric
hospital in Kansas City to serve patients of the city hospital system. In January
2004 WMMHC moved into a new 220,000 square foot, 5-story facility.
In June 2009, Western Missouri Mental Health Center (WMMHC) became the Center for Behavioral Medicine (CBM), an extended stay acute adult inpatient hospital.
Today, CBM serves as the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Department of Psychiatry, fullfilling academic and research needs.
The Center for Behavioral Medicine, formerly Western Missouri Mental Health Center, is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation for Hospital Organizations. The accreditation indicates that quality standards of care and treatment are practiced.