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From a story in the April 2, 2006 edition
of the Grand Island Independent:
Grand Island - A 12-bed, $650,000 facility to be built in
Grand Island will serve as a pilot facility for future behavioral
health reform in central Nebraska.
Mid Plains Center for Behavioral Health in Grand Island will
be constructing a 5,500-square-foot facility that will serve
as an intermediate care and medically assisted detoxification
center. The facility will be part of their campus currently
located on Bauman Drive.
Plans for the build are in the final stages of completion,
and Scott Dugan, director of the center, said he hopes for
a late summer/early fall opening. The new facility, which
can expand to 16 beds if needed, is an intermediate step before
mental health practitioners and law enforcement take someone
into Emergency Protective Custody.
The center will serve five main needs for behavioral health
in the community, Dugan said. It will be a center for urgent
outpatient care, for emergency medication management, a triage
center and home of the 24-hour crisis line, a medically assisted
detox center and an intermediate care facility.
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