Cascade Community Healthcare has received a $1.83 million grant from the state Department of Commerce that will help fund the expansion of capacity at the Crisis Care treatment center in Centralia by 400%.
The money is part of $4.3 million in funding for two Western Washington projects the Department of Commerce announced Monday. In the announcement, the Department of Commerce said roughly $67 million in behavioral health funding for 2023 through 2025 will be made available later this year.
“Investments in community-based treatment strengthens the state’s behavioral health ecosystem by ensuring more equitable access to care and services that meet people where they are, closer to family and personal support systems,” Department of Commerce Director Mike Fong said in a statement.
The funding will go to expand Cascade’s existing 23-hour Crisis Care center. In 2018, Gov. Jay Inslee announced a five-year plan to “modernize and transform” Washington's mental health care system. Statewide, the program has added nearly 3,000 beds and 50 outpatient facilities through $475 million in investments.
“This grant is an amazing opportunity to treat people with immediate behavioral health needs right when they need the help, and not wait until the crisis spirals out of control,” Richard Stride, CEO of Cascade Community Healthcare, said in a news release. “We will be able to treat individuals in crisis in a setting that is centered around their needs, rather than sitting in a hospital emergency department. Having immediate wrap-around services will also be a game changer for our hospital.”
In Pierce County, Trouvés Health Care Corporation received a $2.45 million grant to purchase an existing facility in Fife, which will create 16 crisis stabilization beds and 10 crisis observation recliners.
"We are grateful for the opportunity to work with Pierce County to expand adult crisis stabilization services in the community. This award will allow us to make necessary capital improvements to our facility in Fife, enabling the opening of a 16-bed Crisis Stabilization Unit and a 10-bed Crisis Recovery Center,” a Trouvés Health Care spokesperson said in a statement. “By taking a wrap-around service model approach and providing client-centered services for immediate and sustained stabilization, Trouvés will be able to serve more than 4,000 individuals in crisis each year."
