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SLO, Santa Barbara county school districts partner with local Medi-Cal plan to revamp mental health services on campuses | News | San Luis Obispo

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde

Twenty-one percent of San Luis Coastal Unified School District (SLCUSD) ninth graders reported that they seriously considered suicide in 2021.

Another 37 percent said they felt chronically sad or hopeless—a number that has steadily ticked up in recent years, according to California Healthy Kids survey results.

“Student behavioral and mental health needs have increased, and nowhere has it been more clear than coming back from the pandemic,” SLCUSD Student Support Services Executive Director Janet Gould told New Times. “There’s just a need, and we need to come up with a response.”

click to enlarge PRIORITIZING WELLNESS San Luis Obispo High School will add a full-time campus counselor next year as the San Luis Coastal Unified School District revamps its mental health services under a new state program. - FILE PHOTO BY KASEY BUBNASH
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  • PRIORITIZING WELLNESS San Luis Obispo High School will add a full-time campus counselor next year as the San Luis Coastal Unified School District revamps its mental health services under a new state program.

In a recent push to bolster mental health services, SLCUSD has introduced universal social-emotional screenings for all

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State of the art health centre proposed for Enniscorthy

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde

If given the go-ahead, the centre will be located beside the HSE’s Primary Care Centre at Blackstoops roundabout just outside the town.

The application, which was lodged with the local authority by Axis Health Care Assets Ltd., seeks permission to construct a three-storey, Enhanced Community Care Centre at Quarrypark and will incorporate HSE waiting areas, consultation and meeting rooms, offices and staff facilities.

The proposed development will also consist of a single-storey ancillary plant building while site development works include site clearance, new site boundary treatments, car parking, bicycle shelter, site lighting, hard and soft landscaping, stand-alone totem signs, wall mounted signage and all associated site works.

A spokesperson for the HSE said the Enhanced Community Care (ECC) programme is aimed at enhancing and increasing community health services with an aim of reducing pressure on hospital services.

“This means more services, closer to where people live,” said a HSE spokesperson.

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Oregon State University unveils new health center set to open later this summer | News

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Oregon State University unveils new Health Center set to open later this summer

CORVALLIS, Ore — A new health center at Oregon State University will allow the University to move into a state of the art building. 

For years OSU’s Plageman Health Center was the University’s stalwart clinic. Now however as part of a transformation of the Reser Stadium area, OSU has built a new Health Center. It’s located in the southwest corner of the stadium at 850 southwest 26th Street. Among the reasons OSU had for taking this step was to prioritize the wellness of its students and faculty. 

The center isn’t just for OSU. The university also collaborated with Samaritan Health Services. Samaritan is a non-profit healthcare system. They saw this opportunity to collaborate as a way to expand their system. 




Health Center sign

Kelly Hower, Executive Director of Student Health Services said, “There have been a small

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McLaren Northern Michigan opens behavioral health center in Cheboygan

Posted on by Betty W. McBryde
One of 18 beds in the new McLaren Northern Michigan behavioral health center in Cheboygan.

One of 18 beds in the new McLaren Northern Michigan behavioral health center in Cheboygan.

CHEBOYGAN — McLaren Northern Michigan will soon open the Justin A. Borra Behavioral Health Center in Cheboygan to address the high demand for behavioral health services in the region.

Breaking ground in late 2021, the expansion brings resources and increases access to behavioral health care through the addition of inpatient care and a partial hospitalization outpatient program.

Housed in a newly renovated 11,000-square feet facility, the 18-bed Pulte Family Foundation Adult Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit, with care provided by a psychiatrist, will have the capabilities to provide intensive, inpatient care for patients afflicted with the symptoms of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and other thought disorders, such as schizophrenia.

“The need for behavioral health services is a nationwide crisis and one that will only increase,” said Dr. Justin Klamerus, McLaren Health Care Executive Vice President and

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