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Sheridan Memorial Hospital To Do Some Rearranging For Behavioral Health Unit
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A few things inside the Sheridan Memorial Hospital will soon be moved around.
The hospital will soon start work on putting together a behavioral health and crisis stabilization unit, but before that can be done, a few other areas have to be moved.
At its recent board meeting the Hospital Board Of Trustees approved building a new area on the lower levels below the medical unit on the west side of the building.
Hospital CEO Mike McCafferty says that area will be done in about 8-to-12 months and that’s where the pharmacy will be relocated.
“That work will begin within the next couple months and we will see that as the first domino to fall in a series of projects that we need to do along with this. After the pharmacy is finished and relocates, then we’ll relocate our pediatric unit from where it is currently. Then once that’s done we’ll move pediatrics into that spot, and then we can start on the crisis stabilization, behavioral health area.”
McCafferty says the behavioral health and crisis stabilization unit should be finished sometime in 2026.
Larry L Jones
December 1, 2023 at 2:59 pm
does the this mean your gearing to help those with cognitive issues and more will be setup to help these people? My partner is having issue with the Kaiser Permanente mental health to get her the minimal of help dealing with a Bipolar/PTSD event that happened over a year ago..Kaiser contracts their mental health out to 3rd party mental hold facilities of which just hold NOT TREAT these patients then kicks these patients out to the curb no better off than they come in,they then charge Kaiser upwards to $40,000 to $60,000 for anywhere from 2 weeks to a month hold per patient..it is up to the family or significant other to get them the ongoing help they need after discharge.My partner Julie has had 3 bipolar events in the last year starting in ER of which doctors there classify her gravely ill and have her transported to one of these hold facilities..She has been working with various professionals from Kaiser but none as of yet have determined what is suddenly impaired her or even have a name to this event..we came out to Castro Valley,ca from Sheridan Wyoming in October of last year for two weeks to take care of some taxes and see her new doctors Kaiser made her see and she got ill then..now we are fighting to get back ” home” but need to have a system setup for her in Sheridan to be able to help in her ongoing care and such..Julie is a super smart and caring individual with a business tie to the community there and we just need to come home,can you help us with this and are your facilities in Sheridan able to help in our ongoing search for an answer to her issues?