Organizational Restructuring at Compass Health

Compass Health recently announced a reorganization to respond to financial challenges due to inflationary pressures and deficiencies in funding for community behavioral health, and to ensure our organization’s long-term sustainability to continue meeting client needs.  

We have transitioned several service lines and programs, including expanding some of our crisis and intensive programs that are financially sustainable. Unfortunately, we also will be consolidating some of our outpatient services, where we’ll close select facilities. Closures will also affect our healthcare integration program. 

Our goal is to reduce impacts to client care wherever possible. We anticipate we’ll be able to transition many affected clients to other locations, programs or service delivery mechanisms – mainly telehealth. 

The reorganization will also affect 6% of our workforce. We’re working with each affected team member to identify other potential roles within our organization.  

All of us at Compass Health understand that these types of changes are not easy, and share frustrations around taking such measures when demand for mental health care is unprecedentedly high. To preserve, and ideally, expand access to behavioral healthcare in Washington state, we must pave the way to a brighter future that delivers the sustainable funding needed to support it.   

For details on Compass Health’s efforts to advocate for modernizing the way community behavioral health is funded in Washington state, so that we’re there for our communities when they need us, please visit www.fourfrontcontributor.org