Atrium Health五年投入3.4亿美元扩行为健康服务 Charlotte北部将建168张床位医院
位于北卡罗来纳州梅克伦堡县的Charlotte市，医疗系统 Atrium Health 10月15日宣布，将在五年内投入3.4亿美元扩充行为健康服务，其中包括在 Charlotte 北部 University City 地区新建一所168张床位的行为健康医院，预计2028年启用。
新院将由现有建筑改造而成，设有168张住院床位，其中48张供儿童与青少年使用，并配套心理健康急诊、门诊服务、器械类治疗，以及供无需住院者的强化治疗项目。院方表示，改造现有建筑比从零新建可提前12至18个月投入使用。新院启用后，现有位于 Randolph Road 的行为健康中心66张床位将迁入新院，全市净增102张床位。
Atrium 母公司 Advocate Health 首席执行官 Gene Woods 在宣布活动上表示：「这笔3.4亿美元的投入，体现了我们的信念：心理健康值得与医疗其他领域同等的照护、专业与重视。」院方预计，新院每年可多提供35,000个住院日，扩充后的门诊每年可多接诊19,500人次以上。
院方称，过去六年其 Charlotte 地区网络内与行为健康相关的急诊就诊量上升13%，青少年占其中17%；2025年，儿科患者占行为健康相关急诊就诊的26%，院方当年住院治疗近2,000名儿科患者、门诊治疗近20,000名。北卡罗来纳州目前精神科床位短缺，危机中的患者有时要在急诊滞留数天甚至数周等待床位。（GSM 据 Atrium Health 10月15日发布与 North Carolina Health News 报道）
Atrium Health Commits $340 Million Over Five Years to Behavioral Health, Including a 168-Bed Hospital in Charlotte
Charlotte is a city in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Atrium Health announced on October 15 that it will invest $340 million over five years to expand behavioral health services, including a new 168-bed behavioral health hospital in the University City area of north Charlotte that is expected to open in 2028.
The hospital will be created by renovating an existing building rather than constructing one from the ground up, a step the health system said will bring it online 12 to 18 months sooner. It will have 168 inpatient beds, including 48 for children and teens, along with a mental health emergency department, outpatient services, device-based therapies and intensive treatment programs for people who do not need to stay overnight. When it opens, the 66 beds at the existing center on Randolph Road will move to the new facility, for a net gain of 102 beds.
"This $340 million investment reflects our conviction that mental health deserves the same level of care, expertise and focus as any other area of health care," said Gene Woods, chief executive of Atrium parent Advocate Health, at the announcement event. Atrium expects the hospital to add 35,000 inpatient days of care each year and its expanded outpatient clinics to handle more than 19,500 additional visits a year.
Atrium said behavioral-health-related emergency visits across its Charlotte-area network have risen 13 percent over the past six years, with adolescents accounting for 17 percent of those visits; in 2025, pediatric patients accounted for 26 percent of behavioral-health-related emergency visits, and the system treated nearly 2,000 pediatric patients in inpatient settings and nearly 20,000 in outpatient settings. The expansion comes as North Carolina faces a shortage of psychiatric beds, with patients in crisis sometimes stranded in emergency departments for days or weeks while waiting for a bed. (GSM, based on Atrium Health's October 15 announcement and North Carolina Health News)
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