The Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery is expected to open to patients in the next six months, Miami's Community News reported Oct. 30.
The 181,000-square-foot former state mental health facility has been renovated to become a diversion facility that will offer medical and psychiatric care for patients with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorder who have often received care through other systems of care such as jails, hospitals, psychiatric facilities and homelessness.
The facility will be staffed by medical and mental health specialists, including primary clinicians, psychiatrists, therapists, addiction counselors, dentists, ophthalmologists and podiatrists. Additional services offered will include podiatry, vision and dental, a hair salon and barber shop, and tattoo removal.