Hardin — Hardin City and Big Horn County serves as the location of the new state mental health hospital.
Hardin is one of the many Montana cities that provide space for facilities. Others have laurel and Columbus.
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Hardin is proposed to the location of the New State Mental Health Hospital.
The city officials say that Hadin’s average income is 22% lower than the main average, so Hadin is the strongest choice in the hospital.
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Big Horn County Commissioner Larry Vandersloot said, “We can improve Big Horn County’s Hardin Village. We have the unemployment rate in this county.
As the coal production industry has decreased, the area has lost jobs for many years.
Justin McKinsey
Lawrence Killsback, County Economic Development and Housing Director, said, “We think so, we have gained it, we have become the largest coal production county in the Lord, dealing with the current task and a kind of other economic strategy.
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Hardin suggests land with built -in utility and infrastructure, such as sewage access, water connection and roads, according to a proposal for the Montana Investment Committee (BOI).
“We have raised money to help build potentially necessary infrastructure,” said county accountant Michael Opie.
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The proposal also presented the same advantage as the proximity to Big Horn County Airport and two weekly highways (I-90 and I-94).
Some possible considerations include land of 9 acres of 1015 N. Lessard Ave’s Bia Hardin Correctional facility and land in Hardin Industrial Park.
Vanessa Willadson
Some land requires approval from nearby real estate owners.
Killsback said, “This facility requires land and has the ability to use not only county to buy as much as county as much as possible, or to use what you can do to secure land with individual land owners.
Killsback said he was worried about the community, such as the dangerous patient that the forensic mental health hospital could bring.
Justin McKinsey
But a real estate owner welcomes the idea of Hardin’s mental health hospital.
“We think that security and goods already have the same or similar BIA prisons as they are already in place for the BIA.
The 2025 Montana Lit Council has approved $ 26.2 million for Montana’s mental health facilities. The legislature failed to identify the position of this facility, but Yellow Stone County’s local officials found that Billings were possible in August.
Some local authorities expressed concern about the facilities, saying that there is already a shortage of medical personnel in the area and lacks sufficient outpatient patient treatment programs. On September 10, Greg Gianporte Governor ordered the Investment Committee to restart the new site search.
The state will determine where the facility will be built. The timeline for the decision was not disclosed.
