A ceremony on Thursday heralded the new mental health facilities at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, touted by officials there as the national example of future psychiatric care for the military.
The two buildings add 160,000 square feet of space for counseling and other services at the center, allowing the hospital to consolidate its mental health wing under two roofs.
Previously, inpatient and outpatient services were scattered throughout different floors and wings of the medical center. There are also 15 more inpatient beds, now at 45 total…