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Senate Human Services committee advances $16 million grant proposal to expand inpatient behavioral‑health beds in Bismarck
Summary
Committee voted 6‑0 to give House Bill 1468 a due‑pass recommendation and referred it to appropriations. The bill would provide $16 million to Saint Alexius Medical Center to retrofit an unused floor into a 48‑room behavioral‑health inpatient unit (net +30 beds); the hospital said it would assume operating costs.
House Bill 1468 would appropriate $16 million to the Department of Health and Human Services to fund a behavioral health facility grant intended to expand inpatient behavioral‑health capacity in central North Dakota. Representative Glenn Bosch told the Senate Human Services Committee the grant recipient must create 30 new inpatient behavioral‑health beds, operate the facility for ten years and submit documentation of adequate staffing plans.
Saint Alexius Medical Center officials told the committee the project is ‘‘shovel ready’’ because the hospital can retrofit an existing, unused…
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