“What I see is a mental health organization that routinely and deliberately cuts mental health services to pad their profits,” Mobile City Councilmember Scott Jones said while opposing the city's $600,000 performance contract with AltaPointe.
AltaPointe’s performance contract with the city was again in jeopardy Tuesday as the Mobile City Council worked to pass the city’s budget for the 2023 fiscal year.
Last week, the city council decided to keep the contract intact, after Jones proposed diverting $200,000 to Veterans Recovery Resources, another mental health services provider that focuses primarily on veterans and first responders in Mobile. The city ultimately decided to fund a performance contract to VRR by directing some funds away from the Azalea City Golf Course.
AltaPointe CEO Tuerk Schelsinger said the company’s operating budget is closer to $140 million. AltaPointe’s primary funding comes from state and federal grants. $600,000 would make a difference for other mental health providers in the city, but not so for AltaPointe, Jones argued.Schlesinger says that arguments about the health system’s profits are misleading. All of the yearly profit numbers Jones cited were exaggerated by about $1-2 million, he said.
Schlesinger said that all health centers have had to turn away patients, particularly in recent years, as a labor shortage has made it more difficult to provide adequate care to patients. But, he said, AltaPointe hasn’t turned away anyone for not having insurance, and the hospital does not reserve beds for people with private insurance. He said that the issues raised by Davis have long been resolved.
In 2019, what was then known as the Mobile Association for Retarded Citizens merged with AltaPointe, and took over care for people with intellectual disabilities. Those services were suspended during the pandemic. In 2021, AltaPointe transferred day program services to Volunteers of America, though Holmes says he has not received any information from VOA about care for his son, who is intellectually disabled.
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