OMAHA- Mark Jones walked down the hallway of the Northpoint Recovery facility with Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and a small crowd of political and health officials by his side.

He pointed out patient rooms, a nurse station, the cafeteria and other features of the 44-bed inpatient treatment facility that will soon provide addiction recovery services to Nebraskans.

“We want to be a longtime provider in this community,” said Jones, a vice president with Northpoint. “We think access to care is very important.”

Wednesday’s grand opening of the Omaha facility took about two years and $10 million, which included the purchase of the building at 7215 Ontario St., said Northpoint CEO John Flanagan.

The Omaha center is the fourth built by Northpoint Recovery. Others are based in Boise, Idaho; Seattle; and Denver.

“Northpoint’s mission is saving lives and restoring relationships, and this is the fourth building we’ve restored,” Flanagan said. “You take an old building, renovate it, really make it nice, and then you start treating people in it. It’s a whole transformative process.”

A few patients are already lined up to begin treatment at the center, which will officially open Thursday, Flanagan said.

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