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Behavioral health leaders outline statewide network, propose new state hospital and project $300M capital request
Summary
HHS behavioral health leaders described services across public and private providers, progress on overdose and suicide metrics, and a proposed new state hospital with an executive budget request near $300 million and a planned expansion from 122 staffed beds to about 140 beds in the proposal presented to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Pam Segnus, Executive Director of Behavioral Health, told the committee the state's behavioral health system combines public and private providers and includes state-specific services that private providers cannot currently deliver.
Nut graf: The committee heard that North Dakota reimbursed between 5,000 and 6,000 hospital days per year to private hospitals for acute psychiatric care and that the state hospital in Jamestown provides specialized inpatient forensic restoration and offender-treatment services not duplicated elsewhere in the state. Segnus described a proposed replacement state hospital project and the operational rationale for modernization.
What behavioral health covers Segnus described an integrated behavioral health division that includes the state hospital, roughly 17 behavioral health clinics (residential…
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