24-Hour Behavioral Health Urgent Care Centers Opens In Long Beach

Star View Behavioral Health Group’s Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center (BHUCC) was recently opened in Long Beach, California. The 24-hour psychiatric facility comes as an effort to help individuals with mental health issues receive care, ease the burden on hospital emergency rooms (ERs), reduce the need for psychiatric hospitalizations, and help law enforcement prevent unnecessary incarceration.

The BHUCC stands as a Medi-Cal-certified and Lanterman-Petris-Short-certified crisis stabilization unit that provides quick access to mental health assessment and medication support, as well as offers case management that approaches intervention in a manner that is conscious . . .