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Mayor Donovan highlights Star Center treatment beds, county coordination and outreach team additions
Summary
Mayor Donovan described regional coordination with Skagit County and the Northstar group, the planned Star Center with 64 treatment beds, and the addition of a nurse practitioner to Mount Vernon’s iOS outreach team to provide in-field care.
Mayor Donovan said Mount Vernon is coordinating with Skagit County and regional partners to expand behavioral-health and substance-use treatment capacity, including a 64-bed Star Center, and has added medical staff to local outreach teams.
The mayor described Northstar — a coalition of mayors, county commissioners, public-health officials and other professionals — as a forum to pool resources and improve responses to people experiencing homelessness and substance-use crises.
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