History

Connecticut Mental Health Specialists, CMHS, was founded in 1997 by Dr. Martin Cooper and Dr. David Shack.

Over the past twelve years CMHS has provided expert mental health care to patients in nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Connecticut. CMHS has grown to become the largest clinician owned and managed long term care psychiatric service in the state of Connecticut.

Dr. Cooper continues to play an active role in treating patients through a variety of our facilities plus works as Outpatient psy, plus Dr Cooper has a sizeable outpatient caseload at the CMHS office in Farmington.



Dr. Martin Cooper

 

Dr. Martin Cooper, the Medical Director of CMHS is also the Medical Director of the Behavioral Health Unit at the Hebrew Home and Hospital in West Hartford.

His commitment to geriatric psychiatry and high ethical standards gained Dr. Cooper national recognition with the prestigious American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Clinician of the Year award.

Dr. Cooper was recognized for his vision, leadership, commitments to learning, mentorship and caring communication with patients and their families. The AAGP is a national association representing and serving its members and the field of geriatric psychiatry.

Innovations

Dr. cooper and Dr. Shack during the last twelve years have developed a unique approach to psychiatric charting. This communication tool which is used by all of the MD's and APRN's makes data management and communication from our psychiatric team to the nursing staff extremely informative and comprehensive. The facilities love it because it is easy to follow and allows them to stay one step ahead of state requirements. Our psychiatric charting is also well received by the Department of Public Health.