LUBBOCK, Texas — The Texas legislature had been investing over $2.5 billion since 2017 into rebuilding and expanding psychiatric hospitals, and Lubbock County would soon be home to one of those centers.
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The State of Texas Health and Human Services planned on starting actual construction on the Lubbock Psychiatric Center sometime later this summer. It would be a 50-bed, maximum security hospital near the Montford Unit in Lubbock. The deputy executive commissioner for the HHSC Health and Specialty Care System, Scott Schalchlin, explained how it would focus on treating patients through psychiatric stabilization and competency restoration education.
“It’s going to serve a broader group because of the nature of the type of facility because it’s not a walk place. So, it’s not a hospital, somebody can just walk in and get services, and so what it’s going to do is a couple of things. One is it will relieve a little bit of pressure on the other hospitals where we have people maybe waiting for services because it’s going to help us expand capacity,” Schalchlin said.
Schalchlin explained what kind of patients would be treated at the center…