{"id":641985,"date":"2026-05-14T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:43:07","slug":"mental-health-crisis-and-access-center-marks-over1-year-serving-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641985\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Crisis and Access Center marks over1 year, serving 1,000+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The Grand Traverse Mental Health Crisis and Access Center celebrated its one-year anniversary in January and has served more than 1,000 individuals since opening.<\/p>\n<p>It expanded to 24\/7 operations in July of last year and opened its psychiatric urgent care that same month.<\/p>\n<p>Staff said one of the reasons the crisis center was created was to have a place for emergency mental health treatment so patients would not end up in the emergency room or jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur success rate in diverting from those inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations is pretty significant,\u201d said Laura Glenn, Munson Healthcare chief operating officer. \u201cSo, about 93% of the patients that we have seen in the crisis have been successfully diverted from inpatient hospitalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glenn said the next step is to open its nine-bed adult residential treatment center at the end of this year and its six-bed pediatric residential center next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The Grand Traverse Mental Health Crisis and Access Center celebrated its one-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-641985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}