By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — If you are planning to go to Horizons Mental Health Center for in-person treatment, bring your mask.
"Ever since we started seeing people face to face again, we have asked that, in order to protect our staff and the other clients, we ask everyone to wear a mask that's coming in to our building," said Beth Akins with Horizons. "All of our staff are wearing masks when they're in the building and we also ask all of the clients to wear masks as well."
It's important to remember, you're not doing it for yourself, you're doing it for others.
"My mask is going to protect you, you wearing a mask is going to protect me," Akins said. "We're just trying to be overly cautious in our efforts to keep the people that we're serving safe."
With that said, if you are uncomfortable wearing a mask, Horizons still wants to treat you. They just want to do it via telehealth or other technology to keep the safety factor.
"We can provide services by televideo, telehealth," Akins said. "We'll do whatever we need to do to help our clients get comfortable with being provided services by that method."
Akins wants to make clear that no one should go without services because of their level of comfort with technology or with wearing or not wearing a mask.