After spending years in the negotiation, planning and construction phases, the brand new Guilford County Behavioral Health Center is primed to open next week.
On Saturday, June 12, a ribbon-cutting will be held for the much-anticipated facility.
Former Guilford County Commissioner Jeff Phillips, one of the main architects of the mental health care overhaul in Guilford County and the chair of the board that now oversees the mental health center’s operations, said it’s good to see the facility finally opening its doors.
“It’s really exciting,” Phillips said, adding that the opening will be “a phased-in process.”
The new Guilford County Behavioral Health Center for adults is in the Maple Street Professional Center at 931 Third St. in Greensboro. It will be on a “mental health campus” next to another facility that will treat adolescents with mental health issues.
Phillips said that clients who currently receive care at other locations are now being notified of the change to the new building. He said some services are actually already being provided at the facility and this month it will welcome 700 to 1,000 clients.
Phillips also said the Behavioral Health Center board met in early June to work out some last-minute details of the opening and the ribbon cutting ceremony.
The county’s new collaborative mental health model includes several players: Guilford County, Cone Health, Sandhills Center – a management entirety that oversees the administration of mental health care in Guilford County – and area non-profits that work with those with mental challenges.,
The Guilford County Behavioral Health Center has been under construction for about two years. The county was able to complete the project despite a $7 million hole in the project’s budget after NC Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the state budget that included that money.
I support the combining of efforts and assets.
It is my prayer that to many cooks won’t spoil the stew and that this segment of society truly gets the help they need
Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers.
I’ll send my wife right over. Actually, I can arrange for all three of them.
I just got a little red zippy car. Why at my age, do you ask?
A woman is a woman, but a car is a good ride.
Perhaps there should be a separate mental health center for republicans who are stuck in the Trump cult. We are talking people who continue to ignore reality no matter how profound the evidence of Trump’s corruption is.
Poor you.
You forgot how to spell your name. It’s B O N E H E A D. Pronounced Bye Den. Biden def. 1:corrupt lifelong politician , 2: faux potus. 3: sock puppet for progressive socialist. 4: traitor
you forgot “dipstick”.
Will this be a local behavioral health facility that can treat people with dementia/Alzheimer’s issues so they don’t have to spend hours in the ER before being taken by an ambulance or sheriff’s car to Thomasville for treatment?
Isn’t it odd that there is so much fanfare about the county getting into the mental health business?
It was over 10 years ago the county got out of having a county mental health department and lots of employees lost their jobs. The “new and improved” mental health system was touted to be less costly with better results and they formed a state-wide network of regional “centers” to manage mental health care.
So. . . .it’s now 2021 and the county is getting back in the mental health care business? Will someone tell me what is happening now that was not happening years ago? Or is this just a reshuffling of decks on the titanic?
Something doesn’t smell right and my guess it involves money and politicians.