The new 120-bed facility will bring much-needed behavioral health services to the North County, including mental health help for first responders.
Mental health resources are scarce, and on Thursday, Palomar Health broke ground on a new 120-bed facility that will bring much-needed services to North County. KPBS reporter Tania Thorne says the facility includes help for first responders.
Palomar Health President and CEO Diane Hansen said that in designing the new facility,"we were mindful that physical space has as much of an impact on the healing journey as the treatment program offered within its walls." "For the first time ever on the West Coast, this state of the art facility will offer help for heroes," Hansen said."A wildly successful program designed to serve the mental health and substance abuse needs of active duty and retired military personnel, veterans, first responders and health care workers."
"The horrific images and things that they have to deal with. They keep that all silent as they take care of the rest of us," said San Diego County District Attorney, Summer Stephan."So being able to have a compassionate place of healing in order to deal with sometimes addiction and co-occurring PTSD and other trauma that debilitates their lives ... is super important."
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