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Mount Rogers outlines crisis-bed expansion and $90M budget, asks counties for local match
Summary
Mount Rogers Community Service Board told the Smyth County Board of Supervisors it plans to add an 8-to-16-bed crisis stabilization unit, expand outpatient capacity and open a wellness center; the agency reported serving nearly 3,000 people locally and presented a FY26 operating budget of about $90.4 million and a local-match request.
Mount Rogers Community Service Board leaders told the Smyth County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that a planned addition to their Marion facility would expand crisis stabilization capacity and ease pressure on emergency responders. "That addition will have, go from 8 to 16 crisis stabilization beds," Sandy Bryant, introduced as the Mount Rogers representative, said during the presentation.
Bryant said the expansion also will increase outpatient capacity and consolidate the crisis center near the stabilization unit. Communications director Matt Sabo said Mount Rogers serves about 3,000 people annually in the region and that youth services are growing: "You'll see that in your packet there... 686 (children)" in recent counts.
Christie Glevins, Mount Rogers' director of financial services, reviewed the agency's FY26 budget, stating revenues of approximately $90,400,000 and that about 46% of funding comes from third-party insurance and Medicaid, with state and federal funds accounting for roughly 35%. She said a FY27 local match requirement is estimated at $1.6 million after allowable deductions and in-kind credits, and that the agency used local match to cover roughly $1.5 million in county-specific indigent-service write-offs through April 30.
Agency staff described nonclinical services planned for a wellness center — showers, laundry, clothing and food distribution — intended to remove barriers that keep people from seeking behavioral-health care. Samantha Crockett, senior director of wellness and community engagement, said the center currently operates three days a week in Smith County and staff hope to expand to five days when space is complete.
Board members asked about program reach and cost. "If you were to give $1,100,000... what would you be able to do with that?" a supervisor asked; Glevins replied the money would, in part, offset written-off indigent services and support core clinical and outreach work. The presentation concluded with an invitation for board members to tour Mount Rogers' units.
The board did not take formal action on funding at the meeting; Mount Rogers asked counties to consider the local match and invited officials to an open house when the new space is complete.
