 mhm services, inc. is a privately held mental health services provider in tysons corner, va. the company's principal customers are state and local governments. mhm employs over 2,000 clinical, management, and support staff nationwide. mhm serves approximately 250,000 inmates in 14 different states and in over 250 facilities. ==services provided== mhm offers staffing, management, and clinical services across a variety of fields. *correctional mental health services - mental health and staffing management services for correctional systems *correctional medical services - they provide management and the staffing of physicians, psychiatric and mental health nursing, and other allied healthcare professionals who work on site. *state hospital management services - mhm has designed a model for state hospitals to assist states with the staffing and day-to-day management of their inpatient psychiatric facilities. *community-based mental health services - mhm's subsidiary, forensic health services, inc. (fhs), provides expertise in pre-trial hearings to sentencing. fhs works with clients to identify risk levels of individuals and delivers services that reduce those risks. *forensic programs - mhm and fhs have programs designed and implemented by senior-level mental health clinicians ==business environment== mhm is the only national company providing mental health services to the corrections market. most of its competitors are local groups of psychiatrists or psychologists who enter into contracts with individual prisons. these small operations generally do not have sufficient resources to make statewide contracts with departments of corrections. mhm biggest national competition comes from the physical health providers such as correctional medical services and prison health services, which do mental health services along with their physical health programs. ==history== mhm was originally founded as mental health management in 1981. according to a wall street transcript interview with mhm ceo michael s. pinkert, the company started out developing mental health units in general hospital settings and quickly grew to become the countryâs largest provider of inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals. it then grew by adding freestanding psychiatric hospitals. in 1986, the company was sold to pennsauken, n.j. mediq, inc. in 1993, the company was spun off by mediq and became a publicly traded company. mhm sold off all of its inpatient operations, including its freestanding hospitals, in order to focus solely on providing mental health services in correctional institutions . in 1996, mhm bought liberty bay colony health 
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