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Clinicians and advocates urge supervisors to open county mental‑health campuses; board debates Mind OC contract issues
Summary
More than a dozen speakers pressed the board to open the Be Well campuses in Orange and Irvine and to preserve funding for the FOCUS child‑trauma clinic; supervisors described Mind OC performance failures and asked staff to pursue steps to open county‑owned facilities.
Dozens of public speakers at the March 10 meeting urged the Board of Supervisors to open two county mental‑health campuses built with public funding and to preserve trauma‑informed child services that the county said are at risk.
Dr. Richard Fable and other health‑care leaders said county‑sponsored Be Well campuses in Orange and Irvine are complete but not operating to their full potential because access has been restricted by provider contracting and insurance rules. "Let's open the Be Well campus to all patients who…
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