Vail Health’s Precourt Healing Center Wraps up Construction & Readies for May Opening
As Vail Health Behavioral Health approaches the opening of the Precourt Healing Center, its state-of-the-art inpatient behavioral health facility, construction is coming to a close, and hiring is picking up speed. Watch the video above to take a virtual tour of the new center.
Why the Precourt Healing Center is Needed
When people living in Eagle, Summit, and Garfield Counties experience a behavioral health crisis, their best option for inpatient care is often two or more hours away in Denver or Grand Junction, a journey that is both financially and mentally costly.
“People typically go to the Emergency Department first and then transfer, so a lot of times some of their hold is spent in the Emergency Department with not a lot of treatment happening,” said Dr. Teresa Haynes, a licensed psychologist and director of inpatient behavioral health at the Precourt Healing Center. “Also, unfortunately, my experience with that higher level of care is I don’t know that it has always been the clinical care needed to address that high need and high acuity presentation.”
The Precourt Healing Center provides a local option for crisis stabilization that features dedicated clinical service available seven days a week, 24 hours per day. The center, which can host up to 28 patients at once, offers seven to nine hours per day of treatment, including individual and group therapy, yoga therapy, art therapy, music therapy, and physical movement.
Construction on the Precourt Healing Center, which broke ground in September 2022, is due to wrap up this month. The center’s target date to treat its first patient is May 5.
Hiring Updates
Haynes and Kileen Ihlenfeldt, Vail Health’s director of behavioral health nursing, are collaborating to hire the center’s team of therapists — called behavioral health providers — as well as behavioral health nurses and behavioral health techs.
