Providers buoyed by state plans for mental health care | Hochul pledges $1 billion to system
Cindy Voelker has been in the behavioral health field for about four decades, starting as a psychiatric nurse and eventually rising to become the president and CEO at Spectrum Health and Human Services. And in that time, she’s seen more than a few government proposals for behavioral health, which mostly proved disappointing.
So as she listened to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address on Tuesday, which laid out a $1 billion plan “to fix” the state’s continuum of mental health care, Voelker couldn’t help but feel a little optimistic.
