The Oklahoma City Council voted Tuesday to approve final plans for a $12.27 million behavioral health crisis center, the MAPS 4 Robert Ravitz Crisis Center, designed to increase treatment options for residents experiencing psychiatric and addiction crises. The facility will provide psychiatric, addiction, and crisis stabilization services for Medicaid patients and will be operated by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
More than 768,000 adults in Oklahoma live with a mental health condition, with 1 in 4 Oklahomans—just over 1 million people—enrolled in Medicaid. The center will be constructed on the east side of the OU Health Sciences Center campus where the Lottie House is undergoing demolition at 1200 NE 13th St. The facility addresses a gap in the city’s service landscape; two facilities currently offer crisis services in Oklahoma City, but the new location targets an underserved part of the city.
The center’s design includes an urgent recovery center with 25 specialized observation stations and a living-room-like social space, two wings for crisis stabilization with up to 16 beds in each, group therapy rooms, a quiet room, another social living space, and an outdoor courtyard. Administrative offices include an on-site commercial kitchen and employee cafeteria. The MAPS 4 program, a cash-funded initiative with no debt service, has been supplemented with $3 million from the Arnall Family Foundation. Local architectural firm S.A. Studio designed the facility. Groundbreaking and structural framing are expected early in the summer, with the crisis center anticipating its first clients next year.
This article is an AI-assisted summary. All facts and figures are drawn from the original report: https://journalrecord.com/2026/05/21/okc-council-approves-mental-health-crisis-center-plans/