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Hays County behavioral advisory team recommends 16‑bed diversion center model and hospital colocation
Summary
The Behavioral Advisory Team presented recommended bed counts, a hospital‑collocation strategy, and funding options for a mental‑health diversion center; law‑enforcement data showed roughly two emergency mental‑health detentions per day (2019–2024), supporting the need.
A multidisciplinary Hays County Behavioral Advisory Team (BAT) recommended on June 10 that the county pursue a mental‑health diversion center composed of an up‑to‑6‑bed extended observation unit (EOU) paired with approximately 10 crisis‑residential beds (16 beds total), and urged county leaders to prioritize colocating the center within or adjacent to a hospital or existing behavioral‑health facility.
Chief Stan Standridge (San Marcos Police Department), BAT co‑chair, told commissioners the advisory team’s charter (adopted 2023) lists the diversion center as the team’s top priority. The BAT discouraged a full crisis stabilization unit (CSU) — a more…
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