“This facility will help us keep our residents in our community where they are best served,” he said.
The center is designed as a 44-bed, locked-down facility providing 24-hour subacute care, a high level of care that is less intensive and longer-term than the acute care patients receive while hospitalized. .
No facility currently provides this service in Contra Costa County, said Suzanne Tavano, CCH behavioral health director, meaning when a patient is ready to leave hospital care but still needs a service 24 hours a day in a locked facility, he is transferred to neighboring counties. or further.
“Our goal is to bring Contra Costa residents home,” Tavano said. “People who need this level of care receive it at facilities located throughout the greater Bay Area and Central Valley. For at least 20 years, we have been working to open our own facility in Contra Costa, for the residents of Contra Costa.”
Earlier this month, the state selected Contra Costa County’s proposal for an $18.6 million grant under its Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program.
The county said the voices of Contra Costa’s mental health advocacy community played a central role in making the project a state funding priority. Currently, more than 100 Contra Costa County patients are receiving subacute care at facilities elsewhere in California.
The state grant will cover the construction costs of the CCH-operated facility. The project schedule has not yet been established.
