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Nevada's Mental Health Crisis Hotline Encounters Language, Cultural Accessibility Issues; Trinity Health to Open New Mental Health Facility by 2025 · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news brief for February 22nd.
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  First,
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  according to our report yesterday from This is Reno Nevada's 98 8.
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  Mental health crisis Hotline is experiencing access challenges because of
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  language and cultural barriers.
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  The publication says there's no language or culture training for hotline workers
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  speaking with Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals who call the
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  hotline Besides English,
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  Spanish is the only other language that Nevada workers are trained to use.
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  Crisis support services of Nevada oversees the hotline.
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  It told the publication that it does provide cultural competency training for
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  staff in general.
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  Nevada's CSS says It is also specifically for people who are part of the
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  indigenous lgbtq, Hispanic and people of color communities.
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  However,
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  there's no training specific to Asian-American and Pacific Islander people.
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  CSS notes that it does have an interpreter service that allows it to serve any
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  language.
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  Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are 12% of Nevada's population.
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  The Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration national
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  survey on drug use and health shows mental illness has also been on the rise in
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  this community.
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  A M SA data also shows that members of the A A P I community
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  are three times less likely to seek mental health services compared to
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  white individuals. Second,
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  according to a W H Q R report yesterday,
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  WAKEMAN receives regulatory approval for two new hospitals.
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  One will be a 137 million behavioral health facility.
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  The 150 bed hospital will be built in Nightdale, North Carolina.
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  WakeMed also gained approval for a 214 million hospital in Gardner,
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  North Carolina. Last year,
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  WakeMed filed a certificate of need request for the two facilities.
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  Third,
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  Trinity Health and Universal Health Services announce a new joint venture mental
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  health facility. It's expected to open in 2025.
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  South Ridge Behavioral Hospital will be built in Byron Center, Michigan.
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  It will have almost 100 rooms for adults and older patients.
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  It plans to hire 170 staff members.
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  Building design is still developing.
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  Construction is expected to begin this summer.
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