Nine facilities, with a total of 277 licensed beds, provide acute psychiatric inpatient services for children and adolescents. Map 3-2 shows the location of inpatient facilities that serve adolescent acute psychiatric patients; Table 3-2 gives utilization statistics. The criteria and standards section of this chapter provides a further description of the programs that inpatient facilities offering child/adolescent psychiatric services must provide.
DMH operates a separately-licensed twenty-two (22) bed facility (Oak Circle Center) at Mississippi State Hospital to provide short-term inpatient psychiatric treatment for children and adolescents between the ages of four (4) and seventeen (17).
Table 3-2
Acute Adolescent Psychiatric Bed Utilization FY 2020
Facility | County | Licensed Beds | CON Beds | Abeyance Beds | Inpatient Days | Occupancy Rate (%) | ALOS |
Alliance Health Center | Lauderdale | 26 | 0 | 0 | 6,992 | 73.48 | 8.04 |
Brentwood Behavioral Healthcare of MS | Rankin | 74 | 15 | 0 | 18,282 | 67.50 | 10.37 |
Diamond Grove Center | Winston | 25 | 4 | 0 | 7,996 | 87.39 | 9.58 |
Forrest General Hospital | Forrest | 16 | 0 | 0 | 6,190 | 105.70 | 5.60 |
Gulfport Behavioral Health System | Harrison | 30 | 0 | 0 | 3,300 | 30.05 | 2.94 |
Merit Health River Region | Warren | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2,415 | 32.99 | 8.26 |
Oak Circle Center | Rankin | 22 | 0 | 0 | 7,945 | 98.67 | 39.11 |
Parkwood Behavioral Health System | DeSoto | 52 | 0 | 0 | 10,016 | 52.63 | 8.13 |
University of Mississippi Medical Center | Hinds | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3,030 | 68.99 | 10.08 |
Total/ Average Adolescent Psychiatric Beds | 277 | 19 | 0 | 66,166 | 65.26 | 8.60 |
Source(s): Applications for Renewal of Hospital License for FY 2020; MSDH Division of Health Planning and Resource Development
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