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Horizons Behavioral Health reports expanded crisis services, new crisis receiving center and local program outcomes
Summary
Melissa Lucey, CEO of Horizons Behavioral Health, gave the Appomattox County Board an annual report highlighting growth in in-person appointments, new mobile response and co-responder teams, supportive-housing placements and a planned crisis receiving center budgeted at about $15.1 million.
Melissa Lucey, CEO of Horizons Behavioral Health, updated the Appomattox County Board of Supervisors on the agency’s services, new programs and local outcomes during the board’s meeting on May 20, 2025.
Lucru’s report said Horizons has expanded both in-person and telehealth services and launched community-based initiatives aimed at reducing hospital readmissions. "These are the programs that also allow us to keep individuals who are in crisis in the community and prevent them from being removed and having to go into the hospital," Lucey told the board.
The presentation said in-person appointments increased from 61,802 in fiscal 2023 to 70,279 in fiscal 2024 (telehealth visits were reported separately). Lucey described two new programs — a…
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