Baystate Health opens youth psychiatric unit as it begins partnership with Kindred Health on new hospital
Updated May 03, 2021;
Posted May 03, 2021
Dr. Barry Sarvet is a Baystate Health psychiatrist and chair of the psychiatry department at Baystate Medical Center. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Health has launched its partnership with for-profit Kindred Health Services with the opening of a temporary 12-bed child-and-adolescent behavioral health unit as the two continue plans for their $55 million, 150-bed psychiatric hospital,
The temporary unit restores inpatient pediatric psychiatric services to Western Massachusetts. Mercy Medical Center, part of Trinity Health Of New England, closed Providence Behavioral Hospital in June. The hospital had a 24-bed pediatric psychiatric unit that was the only one in the region.