At the southwest corner of Harry Hines and Medical District is where the new psychiatric state hospital is going to be built in Dallas County. It was approved last legislative session, but the facility will serve six counties in North Texas. Some say its 200 beds aren't enough.
A town hall meeting will be held to discuss the first state psychiatric hospital to be built in Dallas County.
"For years, we've talked about a state mental health facility coming to the Dallas area, but the funds were not available," said State Rep. Toni Rose . Nearly 400 people in the Dallas County jail right now have been deemed incompetent to stand trial and need somewhere to get help.
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