The Narbha Institute

Programs: The narbha institute's largest program is its provision of services, support and grants to healthcare providers who serve primarily medicaid beneficiaries and indigent populations. This includes grants to such organizations to achieve health and health-related social outcomes such as employment, medicaid eligibility compliance, timely mental health assessments, patient satisfaction, housing, criminal justice coordination, and culturally-competent services. In addition to grants made directly by the narbha institute, the organization made an additional $754,546 in grants through its joint venture. In 2017, a $1. 5m endowed professorship was created at an university that will focus on the intersection of criminal justice and behavioral health.

the narbha institute's joint venture is contracted with the arizona medicaid program as an integrated regional behavioral health authority (rbha) which is a managed care organization serving over 166,000 covered lives in northern arizona. Narbha provides a variety of services in addition to governance oversight of the venture, such as maintenance of certain healthcare facilities in remote areas, housing for patients living with serious mental illness and provision of office space to the jv.

through a disregarded entity (well north communities llc), we provide permanent supported housing to approximately 40 families living with serious mental illness in northern arizona. Tenants pay an income-adjusted portion of rent (which is often zero) and reside in apartments purchased with funding from the arizona department of health services. While not listed on financial statements as an expense, the opportunity cost of these heavily discounted rents is over $351,000 per year excluding utilities, based on hud & survey data.