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Vegas Behavioral Health Demand: VA, Shelters & Daily Calls! #shorts

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short discussion, Banks asks whether there is sufficient patient demand to justify opening a behavioral health office in the Las Vegas/Henderson area. Speaker A responds by highlighting the large veteran population—about 40,000 veterans in Clark County—as a substantial potential client base. The conversation notes existing referral relationships with the VA, the Department of Corrections, and two women’s shelters, all of which regularly request inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services. Their behavioral health director, Andre, receives daily calls for placements, but the current facility cannot accept them because it is not yet open. The speakers argue that the combined demand from veterans, non‑veterans, and shelter residents is so strong that the office could operate solely in Las Vegas without needing to expand to other cities, and they cite market research confirming the necessity of the service.

Banks, explain your question a little more, please. So if—
what part of— is this, is this going to be built, or are you trying to get this done at what city?
Or— Las Vegas and Henderson. Okay, Henderson.
All right, so pretty sure. So I didn't— sorry, I didn't get into that. So I was wondering if there is enough patients. So like, is there a need for this, for this office, right? So there—
if I, if I can jump in there real quick, there are 40,000 veterans in Vegas, in Clark County. So if we were to just focus on veterans, pool there is massive. However, our goal is to then be able to help with Inpatient and outpatient veterans and non-veterans. We have already, we have 2 women's shelters that want to send us patients. We have our behavioral health director, Andre, he receives calls every day about people that need either inpatient or outpatient services, and we have to continually turn them away because we don't, we're not open. With relationships with the VA, Department of Corrections, shelters, all of that, the demand, we could stay in Vegas with this model and never run out of patients and not have to expand to any other city ever. because of the demand for behavioral health and for housing and all of that. So yes, the people are there. Yes, the market research is there to know that this is a necessary service.