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ELLINWOOD An online Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) is being conducted by the Ellinwood Hospital and Clinic. Individuals may take the survey by visiting www.surveymonkey.com/r/EllinwoodCHNA. A PDF of the assessment is also available on the hospital’s website.
Lindsey Bogner, Foundation and Marketing director for the hospital, said the information gathered from the survey will help determine the community’s health-care needs. She added that the assessment was a collaboration between the hospital and Solutions 4 Fundraising, a consultant firm used to help complete the CHNA.
By Todd Epp
Artist s concept of addition to Avera Behavioral Health in Sioux Falls.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) Avera announces plans to build a new four-story wing at the Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls.
The expansion will add more capacity for children and adolescents, residential addiction care for youth, 24/7 psychiatric urgent care and partial hospitalization space.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust is assisting the project with a $13 million grant.
It includes an $8 million gift and a $5 million matching portion.
Below is the news release from Avera:
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SIOUX FALLS, SD-Avera announces plans to build a new four-story wing at the Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls to add much-needed services including more capacity for children and adolescents, residential addiction care for youth, 24/7 psychiatric urgent care and partial hospitalization space.
Three locally based agencies, the Mentor Connector, the Turning Point Center and the Homeless Prevention Center, were chosen to receive grants from the Bowse Health Trust, an organization with ties to Rutland Regional Medical Center.
Jamie Bentley, community impact coordinator for the community health improvement team at the hospital, said the COVID-19 pandemic made things different this year causing a delay in the process.
COVID was added to the list of priorities when assessing the applications.
Members of the trust committee use the Community Health Needs Assessment to identify priorities. But the last was done in 2018 before the pandemic.
COVID joined priorities that already had been determined through the assessment like housing and health care; supporting the aging community; child care and parenting; and mental health including substance abuse.
Milwaukee County and Four Local Health Systems Enter Negotiations to Develop Joint Venture
MILWAUKEE – Today Milwaukee County, represented by the Mental Health Board and the Behavioral Health Division, along with the four Milwaukee Health Systems – Advocate Aurora Health, Ascension Wisconsin, Children’s Wisconsin and Froedtert Health – have entered into a Letter of Intent to develop a joint venture (JV) mental health emergency center. This new emergency center is the next major milestone in their shared efforts toward redesigning the county-wide mental health delivery system. Final agreements are slated for approvals in February 2021. Community engagement, detailed design and construction of the new center are expected to begin in early 2021 with the goal of being operational by the spring of 2022.