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County, school and city officials outline mental‑health projects and workforce efforts including Comcare crisis center and new hospital
Summary
Town hall presenters and commenters described multiple mental‑health investments: a new county crisis center, a 104‑bed mental health hospital under construction, workforce pipelines tied to a biomedical campus and future‑ready programs, and county pilot training to address dual‑diagnosis gaps.
Sedgwick County officials and school‑district leaders used the town hall to summarize several concurrent projects they said aim to expand behavioral‑health capacity and workforce pipelines in the region.
Speakers described four major efforts: a $20 million Comcare crisis intervention center that has begun construction; a 104‑bed, roughly $100 million psychiatric facility that county presenters said is under construction in south Wichita to address inpatient bed shortages; workforce development through the downtown biomedical campus and WSU Tech future‑ready programs; and a…
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