Dr. Daniel Spencer,
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my name is dan Spencer, I'm the associate chief of psychiatry and mental health services. The thing I love about ch Katy is that they listened to the community, we listen to the community. There have been some studies and asking community members what is needed and it kept coming up. The child mental health services were needed. We were able to listen to that and respond and now we're building a continuum of care here that is going to be great. The mental health expansion here at C H K. D is really building from the ground up. We don't have something that we are working from. We're starting a lot of things from scratch and that's a challenge in many ways. One of the things I love about that is that we are pulling best practices from all over the country from many different places and facilities and hospitals that are doing this and have done it for many years. We're pulling from all of those and creating something new and different and hopefully even better. I am fortunate enough to live fairly close to the hospital and I love riding my bike to work and I've been able to do it year round in other places. I would not be able to do that. But here the weather is very good and allows that the other thing that I love is that you can pick which kind of activity you want to do um whether it's outdoors or some other kind of activity. Um and it's within reach. So a lot of people do love going to the beach and a lot of people love going to the mountains. We do have to go a little bit of ways to get to the mountains, but they're right there and there there are a lot of fun. So I love the variety that's available here.
