VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — Officials with the Columbia River Mental Health Services furloughed some employees and told thousands of patients they’re pausing several key services across Clark County over a lack of money.
Leaders of CRMHS told their employees by email they don’t have enough money to continue operating. However, the facilities — for the moment — are temporarily closed.
“The cause of this circumstance is an evolving shortfall of monthly cash flow against clinic expenses, coupled to inability to access equity in the organization’s real estate holdings in the timeline necessary to meet current obligations,” Chief Medical Officer Kevin Fischer wrote in the email, obtained by KOIN 6 News. “(The painful irony is that the agency has the resources – but just can’t convert building equity to cash quickly enough in the current environment)”…