The bill would let the Secretary of Health and Human Services offer loans, loan guarantees, and grants to eligible health care organizations. The money could support buying, planning, building, or renovating mental health and substance use treatment facilities, improving their digital and patient care systems, or adding treatment beds. Projects must meet at least one listed need, such as expanding care in a county with too few beds or serving a high-need rural or underresourced community. Grants would favor areas with mental health provider shortages or above-average overdose or suicide rates.
The bill does not provide direct payments to patients. It could help eligible facilities expand or improve treatment services for children and adults. Whether a facility receives support would depend on an application and the Secretary’s decisions.
The bill allows loans and loan guarantees totaling up to $200 million per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, subject to amounts provided in advance through appropriations. It authorizes $200 million per year for grants for those fiscal years. Revenue from the loan and guarantee program above its costs could be deposited in a trust fund and used for community mental health block grants, as provided by appropriations.
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