Residents, facility owner debate new location right across from residential community for Gilbert mental health hospital

Phoenix attorney Jordan Rose gives a presentation to Gilbert's Design Review Board on Thursday as it considers a proposal for a mental-illness and addiction treatment center near Val Vista Drive and Williams Field Road in Gilbert. / PATRICK BREEN/THE REPUBLIC
Phoenix attorney Jordan Rose gives a presentation to Gilbert’s Design Review Board on Thursday as it considers a proposal for a mental-illness and addiction treatment center near Val Vista Drive and Williams Field Road in Gilbert. / PATRICK BREEN/THE REPUBLIC

By Eric Mungenast | East Valley Tribune

Seven months after agreeing to move to a different location, the owners of a mental health facility are facing protests from a collection of local residents upset with the new location.

According to information provided by facility-owner Springstone, the facility, Saguaro Springs, would provide services for people with mental issues — depression and anxiety are specialties — and people with drug and alcohol dependency. The $14 million hospital would have 72 beds to house its patients, who spokesperson Rosemary Plorin wrote in an email stay for an average of seven days.

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