RD353 - Item 314 of the 2015 Appropriation Act, Paragraph B.2: Establishment of a Planning Process - November 1, 2015


Executive Summary:
*This report was replaced in its entirety by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services on November 9, 2015.

In 2014, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) submitted to the Governor and the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committee a report reviewing the current configuration of services provided at the Commonwealth’s adult mental health hospitals. This report began preliminary discussions surrounding the options for consolidating and reorganizing the delivery of such state services (*1). DBHDS will be further expanding upon reconfiguration options in a new report to be submitted this year (*2).

Paragraph B.2. of Item 314 of the 2015 Appropriation Act (see below) requires DBHDS to establish a planning process to provide geriatric, adult, and forensic mental health services, both inpatient and community-based, as close to persons’ homes as possible. This planning process must include various stakeholders from across the behavioral health landscape in Virginia and will produce a comprehensive plan that ensures there are quality services, both inpatient and community-based, delivered at the community level in every part of the Commonwealth. This report is DBHDS’ response to the requirements included in budget item B.2.
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(*1) Item 314 B.1. of the 2014 Appropriation Act, submitted November 5, 2014.
(*2) Item 307R of the 2015 Appropriation Act, Piedmont Geriatric and Catawba Hospital Study, to be submitted to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by November 1, 2015.