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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County and Community Health System person secured astir $97 cardinal successful backing to fortify behavioral wellness services.
The funds travel from California Prop. 1, which allocated implicit $4 cardinal successful enslaved backing for "use successful competitory Behavioral Health Continuum Infraestructure Program (BHCIP) grants focused connected behavioral wellness attraction settings for individuals experiencing intelligence wellness and substance disorders," according to region officials.
From those funds, the County of Fresno secured $67 cardinal successful grants for projects that volition let them to conscionable the accrued request for these services; Community Health System, connected the different hand, received $29.7 million, which they volition usage to grow acute attraction services for Community Behavioral Health Center and amended its infrastructure.
"We are honored to play a relation successful providing solutions and bringing intelligence and behavioral wellness attraction person to location for country residents and excited for continued collaboration with our DBH partners," said Cory Belliston, Community's main operating officer, Post-Acute Services.
The region says it volition usage $47 cardinal for a modern attraction halfway adjacent Highway 180 that volition service younker and adults; different $10 cardinal volition beryllium utilized for a psychiatric residential attraction installation that volition grow the attraction for younker and young adults and adhd 16 caller attraction beds.
The past $10 cardinal volition beryllium utilized for a psychiatric wellness installation to enactment assemblage needs and supply involuntary attraction for radical with co-occurring intelligence wellness and/or terrible substance disorder, adding 16 caller attraction beds.
Community, connected the different hand, volition usage its funds to grow its Community Behavioral Health Center from 73 to 107 acute psychiatric beds and amended the facility's infrastructure. Community officials accidental they expect construction, wholly funded by the grant, to beryllium completed by the extremity of 2028.
