{"id":16621,"date":"2012-12-04T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:01:37","slug":"mental-health-services-transition-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/12\/04\/mental-health-services-transition-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Services Transition Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wake County finds itself a month behind schedule as it transitions from a provider of mental health services at the WakeBrook Recovery Center to a landlord overseeing the property.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Wake County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/news\/2012\/10\/16\/commission-roundup-unc-health-care-will-operate-wakes-mental-health-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">partnered with UNC Health Care<\/a> to provide mental health services at the county-owned WakeBrook campus.<\/p>\n<p>Because the county&#8217;s new local management entity, Alliance Behavioral Health Care, provides funding to WakeBrook, the county must partner with another organization to provide the service.<\/p>\n<p>The county will continue to own the WakeBrook building and lease it to UNC Health Care.<\/p>\n<p>WakeBrook will now use all 48 beds in the facility. Today, 16 go unused, while the remaining 32 are used for non-hospital drug withdrawal and substance abuse rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the partnership, 16 of the substance abuse rehab beds will soon be used for inpatient psychiatric beds.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/news\/2012\/08\/14\/county-looks-to-keep-mental-illness-patients-out-of-er\/\" target=\"_blank\">goal of the transition<\/a> is to keep more people in crisis out of emergency rooms, where staff are often not trained or equipped to handle them.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency rooms will be able to discharge patients to the center where they will receive more specialized care. It also frees up more beds in hospital emergency departments.<\/p>\n<p>This requires a change in the center&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve had a couple of challenges in licensing those services,\u201d said Denise Foreman, assistant to the County Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Crisis and assessment services were set to \u201cgo live\u201d Jan. 1. Those services have been pushed back to Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The licensure for the 32 beds must go through the state and must meet federal Medicaid requirements, explained Foreman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re just talking longer than we thought,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This also pushes back the go-live dates for recovery services and the 16 in-patient hospital beds. All services provided by the UNC Healthcare partnership will be implemented by July 1, Foreman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structural changes to the WakeBrook Recovery Center have been delayed as the state continues to review paperwork. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,15],"tags":[1091,1092,841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}