Mental Health Care in Cherokee, IA

Cherokee Mental Health Institute

What Does Cherokee Mental Health Institute Offer?

Cherokee Mental Health Institute is a mental health facility at 1251 West Cedar Loop, Cherokee, Iowa, offering hospital inpatient care. It accepts Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE and state-financed insurance. Therapy approaches include CBT.

1251 West Cedar Loop
Cherokee, IA 51012

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Cherokee Mental Health Institute

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Private health insurance
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Seniors or older adults
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Droperidol
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Pimozide
  • Prochlorperazine
  • Thioridazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Asenapine
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Chronic disease/illness management
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Illness management and recovery
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • Education services
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Laboratory testing

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Iowa lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Cherokee Mental Health Institute

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Cherokee mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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