For years, the county’s Psychiatric Health Facility — better known as the PHF (pronounced “The Puff”) — has been the subject of numerous exasperated Grand Jury reports mostly about the lack of needed bed space for people so mentally ill they posed a threat to themselves or others.
But this week, the supervisors heard a different story.
For the past two years in a row, inspectors with the State Department of Health Care Services have given the PHF the onceover and concluded there were no clinical deficiencies to report. According to Behavioral Wellness Director Toni Navarro, the two inspectors said they’d never experienced that before, not even once, let alone twice…