The goal is to move more patients out of the state’s large psychiatric hospitals into smaller facilities.
Emerald City Enhanced Services launched a behavioral health care facility as an alternative to the overburdened Western State Hospital. Developer, Destry Witt says the long-term care center can care for patients at half the cost of Western State.
Emerald City’s Lakewood location, is one of only nine such facilities in the state. Witt says, if all goes as planned there will be a tenth by January. The company has set aside $14 million to transform a Tacoma medical park into a state-of-the-art mental health campus, where recovering addicts or individuals struggling with disorders can stay for up to two years.
Last week, King County voted in favor of funding five new regional crisis centers. Instead of going to a hospital, someone in the midst of a mental health episode could walk into one of these crisis centers, without needing a doctor’s approval or insurance. “What’s happened is our emergency rooms and mental health facilities have become the only places where law enforcement or family members can deliver somebody in crisis,” said Dunn.
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