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At the PTA meeting we were informed that the facility will be a level 3.5 treatment facility: Clinically Managed High-Intensity Residential Services.

Level 3.5 involves high-intensity programs for adults who cannot be treated outside of a 24/7 facility due to severe physical or psychological problems or severe impulse control problems, or because they display dangerous symptoms that require 24-hour monitoring. Treatment services are provided by an interdisciplinary team, and onsite physicians are available but not required for phone or in-person consultation. Level 3.5 care typically takes place in freestanding facilities or specialty units of healthcare facilities (read: not in neighborhood homes).[/quote]

"Freestanding facilities" are often homes in neighborhoods.  That's exactly what it means.  I'm not sure why you're reading it to mean otherwise.

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The company that owns these facilities owns health clinics sited in more appropriate locations. Their business development approach is pivoting to neighborhoods AND strategically conflicting out area land use lawyers so HOAs essentially can’t hire a lawyer. The company was recently fined in excess of $300k by the Feds for HIPAA violations.

It’s a money-making venture, not a nonprofit. And having 16+ people with acute addiction and/or mental health issues on the other side of a chain link fence where Elementary school kids play shouldn’t be allowed.

This is Brookeville. You can drive 5 minutes up the road and be on farmland or fields. Why should it be allowed next to a school?

FTR, it’s not “near” the school; it literally shares a property line with the playground.

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Given that you either lied, or are uneducated enough about these facilities to think that "freestanding facilities" isn't a term for homes in residential neighborhoods, why should we assume that the rest of what you wrote is accurate?

I am unclear if this is a program for people with addiction, or for people with mental illness, or for people with dual diagnosis, but there really aren't programs that are and/or like you describe.  Without an accurate understanding of who is living there it's hard to comment on whether it should be near a school.  However, the norm for programs like this is to have them in neighborhoods so that people are learning the skills they need in the kind of setting where they will need them.  Sending people off to be on some field isn't a reasonable solution.  [/quote]

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