Our Contract Partners

Without our contract partners, we wouldn’t be able to reach all of the diverse populations that we do. With these valued relationships, we are able to help expand options and provide mental health services to inmates in correctional facilities, patients referred by physicians in regional clinics, low-income patients in non-profit clinics, geriatric patients in nursing homes, assist Veterans with extensive psychiatric competency evaluations, offer support services and care to both inpatient and outpatient clinics, as well as help all ages of children through adults seeking behavioral and mental health support.

Mental Health Clinics and Various Organizations are Relying on the Expertise of MWI Health

Benefits to Choosing MWI Health's Team Approach rather than hiring a Mental Health Provider:

Meet Some of our Valued Contract Partners:

We have a strong relationship with QTC, the largest provider of disability and occupational health examination services, to administer psychiatric evaluations to veterans, active duty members, and other government-affiliated clients.

Contracted to provide Care for Mission Critical™, we are among a network of providers that tackle complex mental health needs of Veterans, active-duty Service members, Reserves, and National Guard.

Dr Pavlis provides Veterans the care they need in our underserved region of eastern South Dakota.

Community Counseling Services provides a wide array of mental health services, with offices in Huron and Madison, SD, with outreach to Flandreau and multiple nursing home facilities in South East South Dakota. The MWI Health team sees patients regularly at these locations with a mix of telehealth and on-site care.

Behavior Management Systems has been providing behavioral health care in the Black Hills and Western South Dakota since 1948, and we expand their telehealth mental health services.

We address the mental health needs at the Minnehaha County Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Sioux Falls, SD, which meets the secure detention needs of sixteen counties in the southeast portion of South Dakota.

South Dakota Urban Indian Health promotes equitable care of the mind, body, and spirit for all relatives through collective healing and holistic wellness, grounded in Indigenous values. MWI Health has partnered with SDUIH since 2022.

Medical Symbol — Contracting with numerous legal professionals across the upper midwest, Dr. Pavlis is sought after to provide unbiased, knowledgeable, and professional evaluations for civil matters and court-ordered forensic psychiatric and competency evaluations. He provides complete medical record reviews, consultations, and expert witness testimony in civil and criminal cases.

Minnehaha County Jail Mental Health — Taking over the mental health care of inmates at Minnehaha County Jail in September 2021, Dr Pavlis has taken the lead to restructure record keeping and better provide mental health care from now into the foreseeable future. Kristen Winterringer, PMHNP, is our primary provider for this contract. Kristin Gilbertson, MS, LPC, QMHP, takes the lead to establish a Competency Education team, guiding inmates through a thorough curriculum to prepare them for trial.

Dr. Clay Pavlis is the Medical Director at Capital Area Counseling Service, where their motto is “Empowering Central South Dakotans to Build Better Tomorrows.” Our psychiatric team provides mental health services to this organization based out of Pierre, SD, which was chosen as the winner of the 2018 Bush Prize for Community Innovation. We also have a team of providers who see patients regularly at CACS via telehealth.

Located in Sioux Falls, Falls Community Health’s mission is to be an open door to quality health care services by removing barriers, especially financial, that exist for working families without health insurance or other resources to meet their health care needs. By working with FCH, our providers are able to reach a larger cross-section of patients and improve mental health care in Sioux Falls and the surrounding area.

The South Dakota Department of Social Services has adopted a grievance procedure for complaints, and MWI Health evaluates the complaint, determines next steps, and regularly visits and monitors sites across the state of SD to ensure the safety and care of children and youth.

We expand Windom Area Health’s services by providing mental health services to the residents of Windom, Minnesota, and surrounding communities. We have been able to flex with patient demand at this location with a mix of on-site and telehealth support.

Dr Pavlis has regularly worked with physicians from the Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency Program in Mental Health cases since 2022.

Focused on developing emotionally strong communities and people’s fullest potentials, Human Service Agency, where Dr. Pavlis serves as the Medical Director, has locations in Watertown, Sisseton, and Milbank, South Dakota.

Dr Clay Pavlis is the Mental Health Consultant for Paragon Health & Wellness, an independently owned primary health clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

St John’s Circle of Care is a large senior campus in Springfield, MN. We partnered with them to offer care and management of the residents’ mental health needs in January 2023.

Colonial Manor Nursing Home is a 37 bed skilled nursing facility in Lakefield, MN, and we began providing mental health care for their residents in 2023.