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State emergency rule and $10M in budget open path for regional crisis care facilities; Dane County awaits Medicaid guidance
Summary
County staff summarized Centerstone recommendations to reorganize mobile crisis, outlined state actions creating licensing and a $10 million grant pool for two regional crisis care facilities, and said Medicaid billing guidance is still pending — a key factor for sustainability.
County staff told the joint committees on June 30 that the State of Wisconsin has issued an emergency rule defining licensing for so-called crisis care facilities (previously discussed locally as “triage centers”) and that the state biennial budget includes $10,000,000 in grant funding to support development of two regional facilities.
Todd Campbell and Carrie Simon reviewed a Centerstone analysis and its recommendations that Dane County streamline its mobile crisis strategy, centralize follow-up care, improve and standardize data collection, adopt technology for information-sharing and dispatch, and pursue a phased implementation with a neutral facilitator. Carrie Simon said the county has “a large number of resources available to the crisis…
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