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New facility addresses county’s mental health needs
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Similar mental health facilities are at least a 15-minute drive south of Medical City Mental Health & Wellness Alliance.
Medical City Mental Health & Wellness Alliance provides partial hospital programs, intensive outpatient programs and inpatient programs. The partial program gives monitored care and the outpatient intensive program is three or four full days a week, Nix said. Of the 88 beds, 16 will be for adolescents, four for seniors and 68 for adults, said Janet St. James, assistant vice president of public relations and media communications at Medical City Healthcare. Prior to the opening, the next- closest mental health hospitals are in Arlington or downtown Fort Worth. “In this corner of Tarrant County, there isn’t anyone [else],” Nix said. Counselor Katie McCoy, who runs Mindwell Therapy in Keller, echoed those thoughts on the available options. “If somebody is in a major crisis, going to therapy one hour, once a week, might be helpful to some degree, but not in a severe crisis,” McCoy said.
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