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AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is hosting a ribbon-cutting event June 7 to celebrate the grand opening of the new 200-bed patient complex and administrative building at Rusk State Hospital.
The Texas Legislature and the Governor approved approximately $200 million in funding for the state hospital’s construction, enhancing the state-of-the-art care HHSC team members provide while eliminating the challenges older buildings pose for modern health care.
Operating since 1919, Rusk State Hospital offers inpatient adult psychiatric services to people in 36 counties throughout East Texas.
WHAT: Rusk State Hospital grand opening ceremony including remarks by state and city officials. Media tours will be available immediately following the ribbon cutting.
WHO: Speakers include:
- Cecile Erwin Young, HHS executive commissioner
- State Sen. Robert Nichols
- State Rep. Cody Harris
- Michelle Foster, Rusk State Hospital superintendent
- Scott Schalchlin, HHSC deputy executive commissioner
- Michelle Alletto, HHSC chief program and services officer
- James I. Perkins, Citizens 1st Bank president and board chairman
WHEN: 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 7, 2023
WHERE: Rusk State Hospital Main Entrance; 805 N. Dickinson Drive, Rusk, TX
Reporters should RSVP by contacting Tiffany Young at Tiffany.Young@hhs.texas.gov.
For more information about state hospital construction projects throughout the state, visit the Changes to the State Hospital System page on the HHS website.