Genesee Health System reports expansion after millage; crisis stabilization unit due to open in June

Dan Russell, CEO of Genesee Health System (the county’s community mental health center), told the Genesee County Board of Commissioners May 28 that millage revenue passed in 2021 is funding new mental‑health and crisis services across the county.

Russell said the millage-funded programs have reached about 25,000 discrete individuals and recorded roughly 55,000 encounters to date, across 17 separate programs. “Most of everything I’m talking about tonight are new services, and they are services that we did not provide before because they are not Medicaid eligible,” Russell told commissioners.

He described two high-priority items now ramping up: a behavioral health urgent-care clinic that Russell said will operate 24/7 in a new facility at 1040 Bristol, and a crisis stabilization unit (CSU) with 16 beds for up to 72‑hour stays. Russell said the CSU is “about to open in June” and the system plans an open house June 16. The CSU is…