Creating Solutions

The mission of OPEN MINDS is to provide payers and provider organizations serving consumers with complex health and human service needs with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

• Founded in 1987 and based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Over 20+ years of industry experience
• 75+ team members across the U.S. (40 based in Gettysburg, PA)
• Over 200 organizational clients benefitting from OPEN MINDS consulting services
• 20,000+ executive subscribers to OPEN MINDS market intelligence subscriptions
• 5 national conferences per year for health and human service executives

 

Expanding Opportunities

Founded in 1987, OPEN MINDS is the premier market research and management consulting firm specializing in the mental health, addictions, social services, disability support, and related public health sectors of the health and human service field. Our mission is to provide payers and provider organizations serving consumers with complex health and human service needs with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

OPEN MINDS is located at 163 York Street, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 17325-1933. The company is a 100% woman-owned small business, incorporated in Delaware and domiciled in Pennsylvania. OPEN MINDS services include consultation, technical assistance, workforce development, executive education, and subscription information services.

OPEN MINDS has a team of 75 professionals with specific research and management expertise and experience in addiction treatment, mental health and social service fields. Most team members are based in Gettysburg, with satellite offices in North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, Montana, California, Maryland, Kansas, and New Jersey.

For the past two decades, the team at OPEN MINDS has been singularly focused on improving the management of behavioral health and social services in the United States. OPEN MINDS is a knowledge organization – with extensive market information and management best practices information on the behavioral health and social service field. Our specialty is the domains of the health and human service serving consumers with complex needs; consumer seeking services in the following service areas: Mental health and addiction treatment, public health and chronic disease management, Disability support services and long-term care, Child welfare and family preservation.

In 1988, the work of OPEN MINDS was launched with the publication of the market intelligence and management newsletter, OPEN MINDS. For over twenty years, the team at OPEN MINDS has covered the changing financing, service delivery, and regulation shaping the field. Five years later, the team at OPEN MINDS expanded its services to include management consultation and staff training. In 1998, OPEN MINDS expanded its work to include public executive education – focused on specific areas of management core competencies.