Mental Health

MSV Position

• MSV continues to coordinate the efforts of the Physicians for Mental Health Reform (PMHR) coalition to call for improvements to the Commonwealth’s mental health system.
• Virginia presently faces a shortage of primary care physicians who are adequately trained to deal with patients displaying symptoms of mental illness.
• MSV supports increasing the capacity of primary care physicians to care for children with mental health disorders by seeking state funding to grow a successful pilot program so that access to pediatric mental health care in Virginia may be expanded.