Staff Report
Staff members at Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare "don't anticipate any problems" with an agreement to hand off four area health care clinics to a different service provider at the end of the month, Crossroads CEO David Swann said Wednesday.
Crossroads, which manages health care services for a three-county area, has asked New River Behavioral HealthCare to provide mental health and substance abuse services in Mount Airy, Yadkinville, Statesville and Mooresville.
New River would take over the services from Insight Human Services, which announced Feb. 18 it would end its contract with Crossroads and pull out of the clinics by March 28.
Crossroads' board of directors decided Saturday to ask New River to take on the services rather than exercise a state waiver allowing the management entity to provide the services itself.
Things are working out," Swann said of talks this week with New River. "All these things will take a little time to get settled."
Crossroads staff have met with representatives from New River throughout the week to go over details of an amended contract between the two groups. Crossroads has had a contract with New River for about seven months to provide other services in its coverage area.
New River would expand the office space it already occupies in Mount Airy and Statesville to provide substance abuse services in those two Crossroads clinics. Moving into the comprehensive clinics in Yadkinville and Mooresville, which provide mental health services for adults and children, will be a bigger task for New River since the provider doesn't already operate from those facilities.
In addition to touring the clinics, Swann said representatives from New River will meet with current employees at the clinics and discuss the services provided at each during the rest of the week. He said workers from the Partnership for a Drug-Free N.C., the parent company of Insight Human Services, will be on hand Friday to help go over the services.
Crossroads and New River hope to have a final agreement written and signed Friday, Swann said.
Reprinted from The Mount Airy News
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