Almost 500 behavioral health workers, nurses, therapists and cleaning staff, have lost their jobs by moving mental hospitals and closing two hospitals until this year.
Grand Junction’s West Springs Hospital, Wheat Ridge’s West Pines and Johnstown HEIGHTS behavioral health announced massive dismissal from January, and the behavioral health job disappeared as the stock was working to build a more powerful mental health care system for several years.
West Springs, the only inpatient psychiatric hospital in the western slope and the only hospital in the western Colorado, announced that it was closed three weeks ago and discharged the last patient on Monday. On the same day, I closed the psychiatric emergency room.
There are no more hospitals, but Affiliated Mind Springs Health will continue outpatient mental health services, including adults, children and family treatment and drug abuse.
Grand Junction Hospital notified that on February 24, Colorado Labor had fired 187 employees. Hospital officials said they did not provide 60 days of closure notice because they were “actively pursuing capital or business” that the hospital was open or at least delayed.
But the financial structure did not pass, they said.
“Unfortunately, the West Springs Hospital could not secure the capital needed to avoid closure, and this notice is provided as soon as possible after reaching this conclusion.
The 48 Bed Hospital has been filled with an average of about 30 beds over the past six years and has been thoroughly investigated through patient treatment in recent years. The hospital opened in 2005 and built a $ 34 million new facility that partially funded with donations and subsidies, including the Colorado Health Foundation in 2016.
A hospital official said, “It is a heavy heart to announce the closure of the approaching West Springs Hospital. press release Closed announcement. “This decision is not lightly made, and we understand the profound impact on patients, employees and communities.”
Vincent Atchity, the chairman of the mental health Colorado, called the closure of “a disaster for the health of the western slopes.”
“Mind Springs have been a disaster for years.” “It is an insurance company population and the access to medical problems will increase.”
In the northern part of Colorado, two behavioral health hospitals are closed.
Johnstown Heights is firing all 158 employees, the leaders sent a letter to the Ministry of Labor. This includes dozens of nurses, about 60 behavioral health workers and therapists.
A hospital official said in a letter to Larimer’s County, “I was proud of our lives.”
“Mental health is a personal journey, and we are honored to walk with many people. “When we close the door, we hope that we will continue our compassion and devotion, and we recommend that individuals find different available resources on their travel.”
92 Bed Jones Town Hospital is here Regulatory investigation In the last few years, it has been closed and resumed in 2021.
And in Jefferson County, the 96-bird west pines behavioral health of the Wheat Ridge has 132 workers, but some are likely to rehabilitate in a new location. The operation of the hospital will end on March 31, as it moves to a new facility near Westminster on March 31.
The hospital owned by Intermountain Health is closed with the new 144-bird behavioral health by the Intermountain and Acadia Healthcare. Intercountin officials notified the state’s Ministry of Labor and said that the Milridge employees would have the opportunity to apply for a job with Arcadia.
NEW WestMinster Hospital will help to maintain a behavioral health care in the northwestern Denver, but the closure of two other mental hospitals in Grand Junction and Johnstown is “terrible in patients, employees and communities.”
“We know that our state needs more behavioral health resources and support. “Some patients will have an immediate impact.
Until recently, Colorado has not been closed since the 1980s, Welch said. Recent closure is due to the “financial headquarters” of fashion, reduced Medicaid registration and “increasingly burdensome state and federal regulations,” she said.
WELCH said, “There are too many added that these two facilities cannot stand.
The dismissal of the hospital comes after the layoffs of the community mental health center in Colorado in 2024. Job cuts include Wellpower’s position, which provides mental health care in Denver, regardless of whether the patient has insurance, and Jefferson Center, which provides services to Jefferson, Clear Creek and Gilpin County.
Others included LARIMER COUNTY’s Community Mental Health Center, Fort Collins’s Summitstone Health Partners. Fort Collins’ Summitstone Health Partners suddenly fired 75 employees, Grand Junction’s Mind Springs and Central Mental Health last summer.
Community Mental Health Center and Hospital have reduced the number of coloradans that Medicaid insured. After rising rapidly during the covid-19 pandemic, the registration of the government health insurance program has been reduced.
The state has been dealt with for many years due to lack of mental health care workers, and lawmakers spent millions of dollars to increase the number of workers and approach nursing.
The Colorado Behavioral Health Administration, which is trying to create a comprehensive aggregation of mental health career throughout the state, said that it is working with the community to add new services, including high -strength inpatient treatment and outpatient therapy. Examples of filling the community include Vail Valley’s new 28 bed inpatient treatment center.
“The closure of West Springs, West Pines, and Johnstown Hospital has caused a significant change in the behavioral health care personnel of the community they served. “In light of these changes, BHA wants to guarantee the community to easily access high quality behavioral health services.”
