Saturday, February 23, 2013
YOUNGSTOWN — More-efficient and potentially better health care for adults and children is at the heart of a plan to integrate current, stand-alone physical and mental-health care facilities in Mahoning County.
One Health Ohio, based at the Youngstown Community Health Clinic on Wick Avenue, and Turning Point Counseling Services and D&E Counseling Services, two core agencies funded by the Mahoning County Board of Health, say they are deep into making the integration a reality.
The concept of integrating medical and mental health in one facility is not new.
“We’ve had a satellite clinic in Valley Counseling in Trumbull County; we have a long-
standing relationship with the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board, and Turning Point has a physician we placed at its facility,” noted Dr. Ronald Dwinnells, One Health Ohio chief executive officer.
“But the step we haven’t taken, and what is being planned, is to build a new one-stop medical
facility in close proximity to existing mental-health facilities,” said Dr. Dwinnells, architect of the medical-integration plan.
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