The State of Kansas and Sedgwick County are constructing a 50-bed mental health hospital in Sedgwick County. This hospital will be a secure place for adults in mental health crisis or who are unfit to stand trial.
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Governor Laura Kelly signed
Executive Order No. 23-05 in August 2023 to "Establish an Advisory Panel for Planning, Design and Construction of a Regional Psychiatric Hospital in South Central Kansas" as recommended by the 2022 Kansas Legislature's Special Committee on Mental Health Beds directed to:
- Review the need for inpatient psychiatric hospital beds and develop a long-term plan to address mental health needs;
- Review the regional bed expansion plan and how the beds would be constructed;
- Review best practices for providing the operation and oversight of the expanded beds;
- Review the long-term fiscal impact of the additional beds; and
- Study and develop a plan for providing a 50-bed facility with acute inpatient psychiatric beds and adult forensic beds in the Sedgwick County regional area.
Location:
Ruffin Building - 6th Floor Conference Room
100 N. Broadway, Suite 630
Wichita, KS 67202
- October 9, 2023
- November 6, 2023