A state inspection of West Springs Hospital in Grand Junction this week found it had fixed concerns raised earlier this fall, but some Medicaid payments are still on hold.
, didn’t find any evidence of fraud, but did note a lack of transparency and that the services provided didn’t always match communities’ needs.this year, saying they’d been asked to fill out documentation as if they’d seen patients they hadn’t. The state agencies that oversee mental health centers haven’t said if they believe those allegations are true.
The October inspectors noted that West Springs was supposed to open a psychiatric emergency room when it opened four years ago, but for whatever reason, it didn’t, said Sheehan, who joined Mind Springs in August. Now, it has eight beds available to securely assess if people in crisis need to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital, though it won’t start taking transfers from police until January or February.
Unlike other mental health settings, a psychiatric emergency room can confirm that a patient is medically stable and whether their condition needs hospital-level care, Sheehan said. It also should get patients the right care faster than if they had to wait in a general emergency room, he said.
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