{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"New mental health facility planned","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"March 31, 2022 — Ukiah was rocked by two murders in six days, less than a half a mile apart. Both victims and both suspects were mentally ill, homeless, or both. \r\nNow Redwood Quality Management Company, which oversees the county’s mental healthcare contracts, is planning a 16-bed Medi-Cal certified mental health rehabilitation center for the acutely mentally ill, a block from the critical residential treatment facility, which is fully built but not yet serving clients.\r\nCamille Schraeder, the Chief Programs Officer for RQMC, thinks the Medi-Cal funded center, which she hopes to open in late 2024, will free up more money that the county can use for other mental healthcare services. \r\nThat’s because the county uses state realignment funds as a 40% match for Medi-Cal payments. So if patients are sent to facilities that are not Medi-Cal certified, the county has to pay the whole cost with realignment money. Schraeder reasons that if patients go to a facility that is Medi-Cal certified, the county will save 60% of its realignment allocation.\r\nShe’s applied for a state grant she hopes will cover some of the construction costs. She says she’s building from scratch for a few reasons.\r\n“An MHRC (mental health rehabilitation center) is a 16-bed residential treatment facility that has intensive nursing and psychiatry. That’s what it has,” she explained. “We wanted it to be co-located with the medication, psychiatry, and therapy outpatient clinic as well as intensive substance abuse. So first and foremost, we need to have it do both. The clinic, and the MHRC. Secondly, we didn’t want to do what has previously been highly criticized in our community, which is to put something that is that intensive, with 16 mentally ill clients, on State Street.”\r\nIn the meantime, the county psychiatric health facility, the critical residential treatment center, the rehabilitation center, and the new jail for mentally ill inmates are all in some stage of preparation, though none is...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}