KINGSTON – A new future crisis stabilization center, dedicated to mental health and addiction issues, was unveiled Tuesday by Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan.
The county is using $2 million of the federal rescue plan funds to buy 368 Broadway in Kingston, a medical office building adjacent to the Health Alliance Hospital Broadway campus.
“It will make us one of the first in the state to build one of these critically needed 27/7 crisis stabilization centers,” said Ryan. “Anyone dealing with any mental health crisis, addiction issues, substance abuse issues can come here as the first place at that moment of that need and crisis.”
Once open, individuals dealing with these issues can get inpatient or outpatient services.
“We’ll have a whole host of mental health and other health care providers here,” said Ryan. “This is a desperate need. In Ulster County, frankly, we’ve undervalued, under-funded, and under-invested in mental health and addiction for too long. So that’s been one of my big priorities, our big priorities, is to re-invest in this area including, but certainly not limited to this project.”
