A Comprehensive Service Provider
In Pima County

Serving Children & Their Families Who Are AHCCCS Eligible or Enrolled

Pantano Behavioral Health Services Inc. (Pantano) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization incorporated in 2000.

Pantano serves Pima County children and their families who are eligible or enrolled in the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS).  Pantano also serves young adults (18-21) as well as children and adults from the Tohono O’odham Nation.  As a comprehensive service provider, Pantano maintains quality assurance, manages contracts and claims and provides a complete range of behavioral health services.

Arizona’s Children Association (AzCA) and Intermountain Centers for Human Development (ICHD) collaborate with Pantano in providing behavioral health services.

Pantano staff members provide initial assessments (intake), case management, psychiatric assessments and medication management to Pantano-enrolled children.  AzCA and ICHD contract directly with Pantano to provide outpatient services and some residential care for children.  In addition, Pantano contracts with many other service providers.

Children and their families benefit from the unique way this diverse group of trained, experienced behavioral health professionals collaborates and delivers the services children and their families need.

From the beginning, behavioral health professionals and the people involved in a child’s life work together to create a unique plan for that child.  Each child receives services based on his or her own, specific, individual plan.

Learn more about Arizona’s Children Association here and Intermountain Centers for Human Development here.

*AHCCCS is the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System -- Arizona's Medicaid agency offering health care programs to serve Arizona residents.

Mission, Vision,
and Values

Mission

To provide high quality behavioral health services focused on respect for children, their families, and their culture. 

Vision

Develop an organizationally integrated comprehensive service provider  to create a cost-effective entity that is known  statewide for positive member outcomes  

Values

• Respect--Treat every one of our diverse members with dignity.  
• Excellence--Deliver the best possible outcomes and the highest quality service.
• Integrity--Adhere to the highest standards of professionalism and professional ethics.
• Stewardship--Responsibly utilize and preserve the public funds entrusted to us for the benefit of our members and community.