The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) has issued a request for information (RFI) for a potential health-related P3 project.

ADHS is looking to offer the entire continuum of services in one location and ultimately be a training site to assist with developing more behavioral health professionals in Arizona.

Possible ideas for this public-private partnership could include outpatient integrated behavioral health services; medical office space; urgent psychiatric services; observation and stabilization (24 hr. holds); free standing psychiatric emergency room; adult inpatient acute psychiatric services (short-stay); residential treatment center; jail diversion; and other pediatric/adolescent services..

The RFI closed on July 29 with a total of 18 responses received but continue to hear from interested parties. State’s Bond Council needed to evaluate the project because back in 2008, in a state-wide financing deal, the land and buildings at the state hospital were used as collateral.