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Board approves inpatient behavioral‑health use at former care center with sale‑contingent condition
Summary
The Scranton Zoning Hearing Board approved Advantage Behavioral Health Services’ request to operate an inpatient behavioral‑health facility at 2309 Stafford Avenue, attaching a condition that the approval will expire if the applicant does not complete purchase of the property.
The Scranton Zoning Hearing Board voted to approve Advantage Behavioral Health Services 2 LLC’s request to use 2309 Stafford Avenue (the former Mountain View Care Center) as an inpatient behavioral‑health treatment facility, subject to a condition that the approval would expire if the applicant does not complete the property purchase.
Attorney Julie Bernstein of Kaplan Stewart, representing Advantage Behavioral Health (ABH), described the request as an adaptive reuse of an existing facility along the highway that the board previously approved for a drug‑and‑alcohol treatment center in December. Bernstein told the board the inpatient program is voluntary, not an emergency acute psychiatric ward, and will use a state residential treatment license analogous to the…
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