Supervisors undaunted by scope of initiative
County supervisors universally praised a sweeping vision for transformation of the region’s mental health care system Tuesday, highlighting the specificity of the plans brought forward so far.
“We’ve had, really since the early 1980s, an abandonment of our collective public responsibility to behavioral health across California, and certainly here in San Diego County; where that has led us is a place of pretty acute crisis,” Lawson-Remer said. “People were going through the motions, but they weren’t thinking about outcomes,” Anderson said. “What I love about this is it’s outcome based.”
Some aspects of that plan have already been shared with the public, such as working with Alvarado Hospital in La Mesa to create an expanded inpatient unit that would be jointly operated with UC San Diego Health. The unit, Bergmann added, is intended to serve at the county’s main safety net facility, taking that job from the county’s existing behavioral health hospital on Rosecrans Street in San Diego’s Midway district.
“While our goals are ambitious, we will be making substantial headway in short order,” Bergmann said.
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