Range Mental Health Center

Range Mental Health Center has provided over 60+ years of people helping people in Northeast Minnesota.

Without regard for their race, area of residence or economic well-being, mild to severe mental illness strikes one in five Americans each year.  For one in twenty, the malady will persist with a seriously debilitating effect. But whether mild or severe, the illness can be treated with full recovery or at least remission, allowing a return to a productive and fulfilling life.  

Unfortunately, especially when the illness is of a more persistent type, early treatment seldom occurs, leading to difficulty in the classroom, workplace and family as well as with friends.  For related reasons, those with a severe mental illness die at an average of 25 years earlier than their healthy peers.

Range Mental Health Center (RMHC) is the major mental health provider in Northeast Minnesota, providing treatment to over 2,500 individuals a year and covering over 6,800 square miles, providing services to all age groups, races, social classes and disabilities. We provide services to children, families, adults, nursing home residents, retirees, and veterans. The center's mission is dedicated to providing comprehensive services to our citizens by helping them reach and maintain dignified lives.

Established in 1961 with a staff of two, we now employ over 150 staff.   We provide adult and child outpatient therapy, psychiatric services, community-based services; Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS), Target Case Managment (TCM), Peer Support, Housing Support, and School-based Services.  Additionally, we provide Substance Use Disorder services both inpatient and outpatient, Detoxification Services and we provide Crisis Management with our Compassionate Community Response Team (CCRT), Mobile Crisis Stabilization and Residential Crisis Stabilization at our Wellstone Center for Recovery.  We are located in Virginia, Hibbing, and Ely.  The array of services has been recognized as a model both statewide and nationally.

RMHC earned Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) status in May 2023. Led by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), CCBHCs were created to transform mental health and substance use treatment across the country and provide sustainable funding for robust community outpatient mental health treatment.

As a CCBHC, we ensure access to a comprehensive range of services, providing care coordination when needed and incorporating evidence-based practices and other supports based on a community needs assessment. Equally important, CCBHCs are required to serve anyone who requests care for mental health or substance use disorders — regardless of their ability to pay, place of residence, or age, including developmentally appropriate care for children and youth — which RMHC has long practiced.