June 10, 2024
ARH Psychiatric Center Recovery Center Treatment Mall Showcased During Open House Event
Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center recently hosted an open house to show the progress and innovation of the ARH Recovery Center Treatment Mall located in the ARH Psychiatric Center. Those in attendance were able to tour the facility and experience the services that are provided to patients.
Community members attended the open house including Hollie Harris, ARH President and CEO, Senate President Robert Stivers, State Representative Chris Fugate, Perry County Judge-Executive Scott Alexander, and Hazard Mayor Happy Mobelini. The leaders gathered to celebrate and show support for the recent upgrades and improvements made to the facility. Stivers and Fugate were major contributors in helping to obtain funding to make the improvements.
“We are grateful for the support and financial assistance from the Commonwealth in bringing the Psychiatric Center’s Treatment Mall to fruition. Thanks to this funding, our teams can now provide patients with comprehensive therapeutic and recreational programs, expediating the patient’s recovery and successful community reintegration,” says Brian Meyers, MBA, MTS, ARH AVP Behavioral Health.
The purpose of the center is to reintegrate patients and rehabilitate them back into everyday life and society. The recovery center includes features such as a gym, gardening center, recreational activities, and calming space.
“As an organization deeply committed to caring for the mental health care needs of our communities, we greatly appreciate the support we have received from the state of Kentucky. Improving the lives of the patients we serve is our priority and the support of the state is allowing us the opportunity to do just that. We are immensely grateful for that support,” says Tiffany Hall, ARH System Director of Behavioral Health.
With the additional funding, the center was also able to create a computer lab for patient use, a clothing bank, library, weekly Chaplain faith services, and hired a full-time mental health therapist, five treatment mall workers, and two activity workers to engage patients on the units.
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Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), is a not-for-profit health system operating 14 hospitals in Barbourville, Hazard, Harlan, Hyden, Martin, McDowell, Middlesboro, Paintsville, Prestonsburg, West Liberty, Whitesburg, and South Williamson in Kentucky and Beckley and Hinton in West Virginia, as well as multi-specialty physician practices, home health agencies, home medical equipment stores and retail pharmacies and medical spas. ARH employs approximately 6,700 people with an annual payroll and benefits of $474 million generated into our local economies. ARH also has a network of more than 1,300 providers on staff across its multi-state system. ARH is the largest provider of care and the single largest employer in southeastern Kentucky, and the third-largest private employer in southern West Virginia.