As KFOX reported last week, County Commissioners asked the University Medical Center to help MHMR with its budget shortfall before they would approve UMC's budget.

The president and CEO of University Medical Center said that UMC couldn't and wouldn't supply the more than $2 million that was needed to keep the El Paso MHMR serving all of those patients.

Instead, UMC pledged an additional $250,000 to the $327,000 the hospital has given MHMR already.

UMC also outlined a six-point plan to help MHMR get back into the black.

The problem is MHMR currently cares for 1,600 more adults and nearly 1,000 more children than they are supposed to under a contract with the state.

So MHMR either needs to find additional funding from somewhere else to continue helping everyone, or cut back on services to 1,500 patients.

"I'm worried for our clients. I'm worried for our community. We do 125 suicide outreaches a month and that number is growing. Our case load since the economy has difficulties has grown by 10 percent steadily, I'm worried that we're going to have more soldiers with PTSD out untreated," said Gary Larcenaire, with El Paso MHMR.

"I understand, we're very sympathetic, but who do I take that from? Do I take it from cardiology, do I take it from trauma, do I take it from orthopedics and give it to Gary, it just doesn't work that way," said James Valenti, with the University Medical Center.

El Paso MHMR officials said that 1,500 patients will receive a letter in the mail that's going out on Tuesday saying they will be cut off. They will also receive a 30-day supply of medication.