WellSpace Health is asking Rancho Cordova officials to keep $7 million in state behavioral health money in the neighborhood, but to move it a few blocks. On Wednesday, the nonprofit requested that a state grant tied to a stalled project be redirected to its existing Rancho Cordova clinic, where it wants to turn a call center into expanded outpatient behavioral health treatment space.
According to The Sacramento Business Journal, WellSpace filed paperwork with the city seeking to reassign roughly $7,000,000 so it can repurpose part of its Old Placerville Road site for clinical services. The report notes that the grant was originally awarded to a different Rancho Cordova project that has since stalled, and WellSpace is pitching the shift as a quicker route to adding treatment capacity in the area.
State program behind the money
The funding comes from California’s Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, a Prop 1-funded grant program that, according to the state BHCIP website, prioritizes projects that are ready to convert or build facilities to expand outpatient and residential behavioral health capacity. The program steers significant dollars to counties and nonprofit partners and sets specific rules on how awards can be reassigned or spent.
How WellSpace would use the funds
Per the The Sacramento Business Journal, WellSpace’s plan would transform offices currently used for a call center at its Rancho Cordova location into treatment rooms and expanded outpatient programming. The organization operates a regional network of community clinics and in 2024 earned CCBHC accreditation, which it says positions the nonprofit to manage an increase in behavioral health services, according to WellSpace Health. The conversion is framed as a faster way to add services than waiting for the delayed project to restart.
What it could mean locally
If officials sign off on the reallocation, the clinic conversion could add outpatient therapy and medication-management slots more quickly for Rancho Cordova residents, potentially cutting wait times for some patients. Those kinds of capacity boosts line up with BHCIP’s stated purpose of getting usable behavioral health treatment space into communities.
What’s next
The reallocation request now sits with local officials and must comply with state grant rules before any dollars can be moved. City review, along with any required state approvals, will determine whether WellSpace can start renovations and shift services at the Old Placerville Road clinic.
