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Kinixu reports expanded behavioral health services; NAMI launches Sand Creek day program
Summary
Kinixu Community Health told Bonner County commissioners it has expanded outpatient and school-based behavioral health services and increased the number of patients served; the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) described a new nonclinical day program, Sand Creek Connections, for people recovering from serious mental illness.
Dr. Joe Wasif, director of behavioral health at Kinixu Community Health, told the Bonner County Board of Commissioners the clinic has expanded outpatient and school-based services and grown the number of patients served by about 65 percent year over year.
The update mattered, Wasif said, because local mental-health capacity affects the county’s jail, emergency medical services and broader community well-being. "In comparison to 02/2023, in 02/2024, our total patients served in the behavioral health department went up 65 percent to a total of 555 patients served in that year," he said.
Wasif said Kinixu purchased a two-story building on Baldy Mountain Road to concentrate behavioral-health services, has hired its 11th mental-health therapist, and added…
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