By Richard Craver | Journal Reporter
Published: August 16, 2010
Updated: 11:25 pm
It’s been seven months since Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services received state approval to build a 50-bed psychiatric-emergency department.
The project has not moved forward, even though Old Vineyard demonstrated to the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation its ability to pay for the $13.8 million facility. The beds are being transferred from a state hospital in Morganton.
There is a need for the beds.