Connections Health Solutions, the leading innovator of immediate access behavioral health crisis care, today announced Prince William County has awarded Connections Health Solutions a contract to provide crisis receiving and stabilization services for the county. The Company will support the crisis receiving center's design and buildout and will operate the center located in Woodbridge, Virginia.

"Prince William County knows that mental health care is health care, and the community has rallied around a solution to get individuals in crisis the care they need, right when they need it," said Chair At-Large Ann Wheeler. "Throughout the procurement process, Connections Health Solutions demonstrated their expertise in providing high-quality, community-based behavioral health crisis care and an understanding of how to meet the unique needs of the community. We look forward to partnering with them to open the crisis receiving center and seeing the impact their model will have on those in need of this life-saving treatment and care."

Founded and developed by emergency department psychiatrists more than 15 years ago, Connections Health Solutions has been widely recognized as the national leader in crisis care; pioneering the 23-hour observation model and welcoming any, and all, members of the community experiencing a behavioral health crisis to receive care and treatment. The Company currently operates two of the largest and most studied behavioral health crisis receiving centers in the country and has expanded operations to include both rural and urban communities.