Three-story building linked to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Officials broke ground Feb. 22 on a facility that will provide the first inpatient hospital beds for kids and teens in mental health crisis in Santa Clara County.
The project – part of a new center for behavioral health services – was sparked by a comment Sigrid Pinsky, a member of the county’s Behavioral Health Board, made to County Supervisor Joe Simitian in 2014 about the lack of beds for young people with mental health issues. Now, more than eight years later, after a what Simitian calls “painful” delays, construction has begun.
“Way too many of our kids are being hospitalized for psychiatric emergencies outside the county. Separating these kids from their families at one of the toughest times in their lives, that’s just hell on them,” Simitian said in a statement. “I’m also worried that the specter of long-distance treatment could deter kids and families from seeking the help they need in the first place.”
The new facility replaces the 50-year-old Don Lowe Pavilion, which has housed adult Emergency Psychiatric Services and Mental Health Urgent Care for 50 years. The center will have 21 beds and an outdoor terrace for patients ages 13-17 years. Children 12 and younger have a separate unit with 14 beds and their own outdoor space. There will be 42 beds and two tree-screened outdoor terraces for adult inpatient care.
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