Crisis Center patients wait weeks for space at Lincoln Regional Center
The Lincoln Journal StarDec 26, 2018
The local Crisis Center has also seen the wait time for a bed at the Regional Center grow, all while the number of clients sent to the Regional Center has decreased.
In the last year, a female client waited 101 days for a bed at the Regional Center, according to
This woman had tried other options, community-based programs and inpatient services at a private hospital, but needed the longer-term care provided at the Regional Center.
The Crisis Center's average wait time for a Regional Center bed has slowly increased, from an average of 21 days in fiscal year 2014-15 to 42 days last year.
The 16-bed Crisis Center is a short-term program aimed at helping people through a crisis, then sending them home or on to a long-term program. The average length of stay is five to six days.
Currently, many patients who need longer-term help go to inpatient psychiatric units in private hospitals, most at Mary Lanning in
The Crisis Center is intended to be a temporary placement, says
"Because the state hasn't funded enough beds at the Regional Center, the Crisis Center, run by the county, has become a longer-term placement for some people," she said.
Save the skywalk
McGinnis, who doesn't own a car, finds the enclosed seven-block skywalk system quite convenient, particularly when the weather is bad.
Naturally, she was concerned when she read that the 40-year contracts related to the ownership, maintenance and care of the skywalk system are ending, with no replacement contracts in sight.
Generally when she posts videos, she gets a few views -- one or two. But in the first four days of the "Save the Skywalk" video, she had 32 views.
McGinnis graduated from the
The skywalk situation hasn't changed much since the
City staff are working to set up a meeting with property owners along the skywalk system, said
The conversation about the system's future is just getting started, Connolly said.
County bridge bingo
They just slip out of County Engineer
F225. A25. C34. R210.
Those are the official designations for the almost 5,000 culverts and 300-plus bridges in
A friend of Dingman's calls it bridge bingo.
The numbering system, its origin lost in history, begins in the northwest area of the county, with A, and ends with Y in the far southeast corner.
Today there is a digitized bridge inventory, though there are original paper records in a cupboard at the county engineer's office.
A few of the bridges have names. There is the Nuernberger bridge in
But most of the bridges have just bingo designations, not names.
There has been much discussion about the need to replace many of the county's older bridges and the cost to do so.
Referring to that history,
LTU transition cost
The transformation of the city's
The department will begin to transition to its new name and new logo in 2019.
Eagan announces retirement
County Chief Administrator Officer
Eagan notified the board last week, giving it time to make plans for a transition. Eagan has been the county administrator, serving the
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