Fresno, California – The state of California allocates funding for Fresno County’s inpatient psychiatric hospital for children.
Fresno County is close to the restoration of children’s mental health services. Instead of sending them way for their treatments, the children can soon stay close to their homes and families.
Mental health services, especially for children mean urgent care and immediate treatment. These young minds should be provided with appropriate services from an urgent care clinic, mental health facility, or a psychiatric hospital, ensuring that their mental health issues are addressed properly, whether through medication, treatment, or therapy.
That case was acknowledged by Fresno County as an inpatient psychiatric hospital will soon rise on the grounds of the previous County Hospital complex. The facility will provide mental health care services for children.
Fresno County Supervisor Henry R. Perea said a $2 million funding was allocated for a facility remodeling in the VMC campus. That facility will accommodate children suffering from mental health crisis situations. Perea said such situations need immediate care, providing the children and their families the nearest urgent care near me is of utmost importance.
Over 12 years now, Fresno County is without a children’s inpatient treatment center. This simply means that those children under crisis situations were sent to out of town facilities and urgent care clinics in Los Angeles and Bakersfield, psychiatric facilities that are hundreds of miles away from Fresno County.
The absence of any children’s inpatient treatment center in Fresno has created actual and long-term hardships for the county children and their families. Thus, the inpatient psychiatric hospital will eventually eliminate those struggles.
Perea said children go around and throughout the state every day, just to obtain psychiatric inpatient care since Fresno has none. And these children must be given attention immediately, considering their mental health conditions.
Talking about children with mental health issues means urgency. However, if they have to travel miles to a mental health facility, and away from their families, that is impractical and irresponsible. Perea insisted that is not the appropriate process for their recovery, instead they should be close to their families, and everyone who love and support them. With the completion of the said facility, all these will be achieved and children will be provided with the services they need and deserve.
The State of California will provide the $2 million funding for the inpatient psychiatric hospital, and the building’s completion is expected by early next year, and will house up to ten children.
