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Alamance Behavioral Health Center opens 16-bed facility; center reports majority diversion from EDs and jails
Summary
Via Health and RHA Health Services updated commissioners on the new Alamance Behavioral Health Center: a walk-in open-access center, 24/7 behavioral urgent care, pharmacy, peer living room and a newly opened 16‑bed facility-based crisis unit. Presenters said most visits so far are diverting people from emergency departments or jail.
Via Health and RHA Health Services told the Alamance County Commissioners that the Alamance Behavioral Health Center is operational and providing multiple services intended to redirect behavioral-health crises away from emergency rooms and jails.
Presenters described an on-site walk-in open-access center, a 24/7 behavioral urgent-care unit, a peer living room for drop-in peer support, an on-site Genoa Pharmacy, a mobile crisis team and a children’s-dedicated entrance. A 16-bed facility-based crisis (FBC) unit opened in early May and is intended to hold adults for short-term stabilization for mental-health or non–hospital-level medical detox needs.
Donald Drews, vice president of behavioral…
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