At a celebration against a backdrop of construction, Georgia providers said once the facility is built, it will be one step in a new proposed continuum of care.
Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is partnering with a Macon-based provider to open a health care center specifically for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD.
Georgia will need to build five more behavioral health crisis centers and free up about 120 additional beds in the state hospital network for people in the criminal justice system – all by 2025.
Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. Now California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less.
