Sacramento County and WellSpace Health put shovels in the ground on April 7, 2026, officially starting work on a 13-acre Community Wellness Campus in South Sacramento's Little Saigon neighborhood. The project is aimed at expanding behavioral, dental and physical health care for residents who rely on Medi-Cal or are uninsured, and the groundbreaking drew county leaders, project partners and neighborhood residents to a ceremonial kickoff for construction.
The first phase centers on a 32-bed Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC), a 24,700-square-foot residential treatment building funded largely through state and county grants. The county says the MHRC is backed by a $23.57 million Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program award and a $1.98 million county match, and that WellSpace will operate the facility while Sacramento County maintains priority access to beds, according to Sacramento County.
“This project reflects Sacramento County’s commitment to meeting people where they are and expanding access to critical behavioral health services,” District Two Supervisor Patrick Kennedy said in the county statement. County board materials also show that ARPA allocations helped purchase the 13-acre parcel and that the campus will include a two-story, 32,000-square-foot Crisis Center with a 988 communications hub on the top floor and crisis receiving and outpatient services on the ground floor, according to a county Board report.
What the campus will include
The campus is being planned as an integrated hub for crisis response and ongoing treatment rather than a one-and-done stop. The county’s planning documents describe a Crisis Center that will pair a 988 operations floor with Crisis Receiving for Behavioral Health (CRBH) programs, a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic and a Federally Qualified Health Center, per the county Board report. WellSpace already operates 988 services and a certified CCBHC in the region, a track record county officials say will help run the new hub, according to Comstock's.
Where this fits into local homelessness and services
The Stockton Boulevard parcel has also been the site of a temporary Safe Stay sleeping-cabin community supplied by the state while the campus is developed. The city’s coverage identifies the property as 6820 Stockton Blvd., and local reporting notes that 175 tiny homes have been deployed on the site as a temporary measure while WellSpace moves forward with the wellness campus, per KCRA. Officials say the shelters are tied to on-site case management and health services, while nearby businesses have expressed concerns about impacts even as county leaders emphasize the link between housing and care.
County officials say the MHRC is expected to open in 2027 and that initial services on the campus should come online within roughly two years of tenant improvements. Building the full campus will be a multiyear effort, county leaders and WellSpace representatives said, with priority access for Sacramento County clients and a mix of outpatient, residential and crisis services planned.
