The Douglas County Commission meets in the historic courtroom on the second floor of the county courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.
The Douglas County Commission agreed Wednesday to subsidize the hiring of three new psychiatrists for $350,000 — a move that one official said would allow about 1,100 more people to get the mental health treatment they need in 2019.The subsidy will allow Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to hire a new full-time psychiatrist and will allow Lawrence Memorial Hospital to hire two psychiatrists who will work part of the time on contract for other agencies, said Bob Tryanski, the county’s director of behavioral health projects, at the commission’s meeting. One of the new psychiatrists at LMH will spend 50 percent of his or her time working for Bert Nash, while the other new LMH hire will work 50 percent of the time for Heartland Community Health Center, he said.
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