Crisis Solutions to open for some patient care
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Crisis Solutions director Anselmo Quezada stands outside the facility, which is expected to begin treating patients around March 1.
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The Crisis Solutions facility administered by Grant Integrated Services will start treating inpatient behavioral health patients returning from hospitalization around March 1.
Integrated Services Manager Dell Anderson told Grant County Commissioners Monday the facility, 830 E. Plum St., Moses Lake, was granted a license for two beds. Anderson said he hopes all 10 beds will be licensed by the end of March.
Because Grant County doesn’t have a facility for inpatient behavioral health treatment, patients usually are hospitalized in Spokane or Seattle, Anderson said.
The facility was supposed to open in the fall to treat behavioral health patients in crisis who needed to be stabilized. But in October 2020, Washington Department of Health officials said the facility didn’t meet the license requirements for that kind of treatment and required further remodeling.
Anderson said DOH officials are supposed to provide a list of those requirements by the end of this week.
In the meantime, the facility will be open in March for patients who have been discharged from the hospital, but are still in need of outpatient treatment. Once the facility receives its license for inpatient treatment, it will continue outpatient treatment, Anderson added.
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