NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The new eight-bed care facility for adults for Horizons Mental Health Center is not going to be open for a while for overnight stays, but they do plan to use the building.
"We are waiting for our Residential Care Facility licensing from KDADS," said Nicole Eitzen with Horizons. "That can take up to 90 days. What we're doing is, we're just going to be doing some day programming there with individuals that maybe are in crisis, but they will not be able to stay overnight."
The Carrefour Crisis Center will be holding a public open house Friday, Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. at 311 West 2nd.
"We wanted to be able to open it up to the community to come see a little bit earlier," Eitzen said. "That very next Monday, the 8th, we'll just start doing some day programming with some of our clients."
They are still working on what the operating hours will be for the interim.
"We're trying to figure out those details right now," Eitzen said. "If they can be safe, let's say they do have family members or friends that maybe just aren't available during the daytime to help with safety planning but would be later in the day, we see that quite a bit, then they could come to our facility and get some of those crisis supports during the day, be seen by a med provider, have assistance with taking their meds as prescribed, those kinds of things. If they are not safe, like they do need that 24-7 care, then we would just need to assess them to go to an inpatient facility for right now."
The Horizons Carrefour Crisis Center was purchased thanks to a grant from the federal government as part of the process of making Horizons a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic.