CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) â After years of planning, Linn Countyâs new Mental Health Access Center is only weeks away from accepting patients. The $3.5 million center, which Director Erin Foster noted went from idea to reality in six years, held a small ribbon cutting ceremony just for staffers on March 5. However, the center, at 501 13th St. NW., will not yet be open to the public. âWe want to do an incremental type opening to ramp services up,â Foster told the Cedar Rapids Gazette. âWe canât do a ribbon cutting with patients here, so we will take patients a week or so after.â