New Rosecrance Behavioral Health Center Opens With Help From $1 Million Durbin Earmark

New Rosecrance Behavioral Health Center Opens With Help From $1 Million Durbin Earmark

CHAMPAIGN - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony today for the new Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center at Rosecrance on Moreland. The redesigned space is equipped to provide rapid triage, comprehensive behavioral health assessments, and crisis stabilization services to ensure patients receive prompt, compassionate care when they need it most.

"When Rosecrance told me that they wanted to construct a new Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center to be readily accessible and provide emergency mental health care for those in crisis, I said, 'sign me up,'" Durbin said. "I secured a $1 million earmark to help bring this new triage center to life. It may be modest in size, but its impact will be felt by thousands of residents in the region."

"Every person experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis deserves access to compassionate care close to home, and the Rosecrance Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center gives individuals and families in Champaign and surrounding communities a place to turn for immediate support and connection to ongoing care," said Melissa Pappas, executive director of Rosecrance Central Illinois. "We are deeply grateful to Sen. Dick Durbin for his leadership and support, which helped make this important resource possible for the individuals and families we serve."

Durbin has long supported behavioral health providers and increased access to mental health services, including working with Rosecrance to include a provision in the 2018 SUPPORT Act to lift the Medicaid Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) Exclusion and expand Medicaid coverage for residential addiction treatment in facilities with more than 16 beds. Providers and patients continue to grapple with the harmful consequences arising from the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This legislation will cut $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the next decade, resulting in approximately 10 million Americans nationwide and 500,000 Illinoisans losing coverage. New red tape requirements and re-enrollment provisions will significantly raise barriers for eligible participants to stay enrolled.

The Trump Administration has also attacked the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)-terminating nearly half of its staff and attempting to terminate more than $2 billion in SAMHSA grants by issuing immediate funding termination letters to nearly 2,000 nonprofit groups that provide mental health and addiction services. The Administration reversed this decision shortly after, but the attempt itself significantly disrupted SAMHSA's operations.

Founded in 1916, Rosecrance is one of the largest non-profit behavioral health treatment providers in Illinois and provides mental health and addiction treatment services, including both inpatient and outpatient care. Rosecrance has 70 locations primarily in the Chicagoland, Champaign, and Rockford areas, as well as in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa.

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