Border Area Mental Health Services

Border Area Mental Health Services is a psychiatrist practice in Deming, New Mexico. The not-for-profit organization serves adults, children, and families, and its services include individual, group, and family therapy, psychiatric services and evaluation, addiction treatment, and a Genoa Pharmacy. Community programs include comprehensive community support services, a juvenile community corrections program, and psycho-social rehabilitation. The agency has served its communities for more than fifty years and operates in multiple locations.

The organization describes its approach as accessible, culturally competent, and ethnically sensitive, incorporating the values, needs, and problems of the local culture into treatment. Its stated mission is to empower people to realize their full potential, and it aims to help individuals with behavioral health issues, including alcohol and other drug abuse, control symptoms and develop the skills and supports they need to live, learn, and work. Organizing principles include mutual respect, recognition of individual needs, and the importance of families as a resource and support.

Prescriber Ernest A. Flores, MD, has practiced medicine in New Mexico since 1984, trained in psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has been the agency's medical director since 2018. He is bilingual in Spanish and English and provides telemedicine services. Claudia Ruiz, PMHNP, has been with the agency since 2018, holds bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing from New Mexico State University, is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and provides in-person and telemedicine services. D Joy Mynatt, DNP, CNP, is a certified family nurse practitioner.

The practice sits on East Olive Street, about a tenth of a mile from South Cody Road and the Luna County District Court. Luna County Extension Services is roughly two tenths of a mile away, and the Luna County Court House, the Luna County Courthouse Historic Site, and the Luna County Courthouse Park Historic Site are each about three tenths of a mile from the office.

As a not-for-profit, the organization works alongside other community organizations to make health care and social services available to those who need them most, with a stated commitment to its communities, clients, and employees.