By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A new clinic in St. Joseph will focus on providing urgent mental health care.
Family Guidance Center is opening the doors of its Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center to serve those in need of immediate mental health care.
Family Guidance Center Co-CEO Kris Hannon says the clinic will treat anyone in the community, regardless of whether they have insurance or not.
"We will treat children five years and up, and adults all the way through the lifespan, whether you have insurance, no insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, to us it doesn't matter we want you to get the behavioral health help you need," Hannon tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post.
"So, whether you're struggling with ADHD, anxiety, depression, substance use, hearing voices, just feeling sad, going through a trauma, we want you to walk in and we will see you and help connect you to care."
Hannon says the clinic will provide help with the goal of getting people in and out quickly, so they do not have to wait for the care they need.
Hannon says this new center is an expansion of the services provided by Family Guidance.
"Because our goal at Family Guidance Center is that there is no wrong door to care and our goal is that when somebody comes in, when somebody says I need help today, we have got to be able to provide that help to them today," Hannon explains. "It can't be ok well I need help today and us telling them Well can you come back in a week or can you come back in three days."
The clinic is located at 4906 Frederick Avenue next to Larson's Heating and Air. Services are now open after the staff trained over the last several weeks.
Hannon says much like Mosaic's medical urgent care, this clinic will focus on providing care and cutting wait time.
"I've been to the local urgent care, I have an 11-year-old, so I frequent both of them because there's always an injury, so sometimes you go in and you're sitting there waiting for 30 minutes, 60 minutes, an hour, because they're busy," Hannon says. "We have staffed this so that we think we can get people in and out quickly and get their care needs met quickly."
Patients will be welcome into the urgent care center for a variety of mental health struggles.