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House committee advances bill establishing South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital
Summary
The House Committee on House Health and Human Services on Feb. 17 advanced House Bill 23-65, a measure to add the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital to state statute and create a fee fund, while updating references to state psychiatric hospitals.
The House Committee on House Health and Human Services on Feb. 17 advanced House Bill 23-65, a measure that would add the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital to state statute, create a South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital fee fund and update statutory references to state psychiatric hospitals.
The bill authorizes a 104-bed regional state psychiatric hospital to serve adults committed for involuntary mental-health treatment under the Kansas Care and Treatment Act and to provide competency restoration services for criminal defendants. The department for aging and disability services (KDADS) said the hospital is being built in partnership with Sedgwick County and is planned for the corner of McArthur and Meridian in south Wichita.
KDADS Deputy Secretary Scott Bruner told the committee the county has acquired property, contracted design firms and entered a general-contractor agreement. Bruner said clearing of the Wichita site began in…
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