County, city and health leaders picked up shovels Monday to break ground on a new psychiatric health facility at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. The new facility will fill a void in mental health services in the region.
But the closure left a void in the region for people struggling with emergency mental health situations.
Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said decades of underfunding the mental health system have gotten us to where we are now. "If everyone sitting here right now broke your leg as a society we would have no problem getting you in we’d get you an x-ray, a cast, a pair of crutches — you’d be able to go on with your day," he said,"but if everyone here right now needed mental health treatment or needed substance abuse treatment it wouldn’t be available.""It may not be a broken bone and yet what we have...
Ma said for him, and for the doctors and families who desperately need treatment, this was more than a groundbreaking."Those shovels represent hope. They represent a new day. And this model is truly groundbreaking and so from the bottom of my heart from all the providers I thank you," he said to the small crowd gathered for the ceremony.
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