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Solvista reports service expansion, warns Medicaid and federal funding shortfalls could cut safety‑net care
Summary
Solvista’s CEO gave commissioners a quarterly update on behavioral health services across Chaffee and neighboring counties, describing expanded urgent‑care access, mobile crisis and home‑based programs and warning that roughly 80% of revenue comes from Medicaid and that proposed or pending funding changes threaten service capacity.
Solvista told the Chaffee County Board of Commissioners it has prioritized access to care by expanding urgent behavioral‑health appointments and regional mobile crisis services, while warning that reductions in federal and state funding would sharply strain the nonprofit’s capacity.
“Mandy,” who identified herself as the agency’s CEO, said Solvista aims to serve people who lack affordable commercial insurance and that about 80 percent of its current funding comes from a Medicaid contract. She said the organization has absorbed staffing and service cuts in recent years and has already absorbed roughly $1.4 million in unrecovered personnel costs to avoid…
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