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BayCare outlines Pasco services, says new behavioral-health urgent care opens Monday with county and settlement support
Summary
BayCare Behavioral Health briefed the board on county-match funds, its crisis services and an urgent-care clinic for behavioral health supported by CDBG and opioid-settlement funding; presenters reported low recidivism and high diversion rates for their crisis teams.
BayCare Behavioral Health on Jan. 28 presented its Pasco County services and said a county-backed behavioral-health urgent care will open Monday, supported by Community Development Block Grant funds and opioid-settlement dollars.
Tracy Kelly, director of operations for BayCare Behavioral Health, told the board BayCare serves five counties and treats roughly 70,000 patients a year; the Pasco continuum includes outpatient clinics, two residential programs, an integrated stabilization unit (a combined detox and crisis-stabilization facility opened in 2013), a mobile crisis-response team and an emergent behavioral-health urgent-care center.
Kelly said the integrated stabilization unit is a 30-bed facility that handled about 1,800 combined crisis and detox cases in 2024 and reported an 11% recidivism rate. BayCare—s mobile crisis team responds countywide and, Kelly said, diverted 87% of roughly 1,000 calls in the past year from involuntary commitment or emergency detainment by creating safety plans and linking people to outpatient services.
Kelly described the urgent-care center as filling an intermediate role between outpatient care and involuntary hospitalization: a quick-access clinic for people who may need same-day evaluation or treatment but not locked inpatient care. She said the urgent-care opening was financed in part by CDBG funds and opioid settlement money and that the county match dollars serve as a safety net for uninsured and underinsured residents.
The board welcomed the presentation and said officials plan to coordinate on ribbon-cutting and on linking other county services to the new facility. No board action or vote was required.
