Kaiser捐赠1500万美元助加州大学旧金山分校建儿童行为健康病区：奥克兰贝尼奥夫儿童医院将设20张住院床位，年服务约700名患者
加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）10月28日宣布，Kaiser Permanente 将捐赠1,500万美元，帮助位于加利福尼亚州阿拉米达县奥克兰市的 UCSF 贝尼奥夫儿童医院奥克兰院区建立其首个住院行为健康病区，显著扩大东湾及北加州儿童和青少年获得专业精神科护理的机会。
新病区面积21,300平方英尺，设20间私人病房，预计每年服务约700名患者：其中15间供需要急性精神科护理的儿童和青少年使用，5间供同时需要行为健康与内科治疗的患者使用；每间病房都留有照护者陪夜的空间，病区还设有户外治疗空间和一座治疗性屋顶花园。该项目是 UCSF 医疗系统16亿美元奥克兰院区现代化工程的一部分，将入驻一栋新建的七层医院大楼。
UCSF 介绍，该院区目前没有专门的急性精神科住院床位，陷入危机的儿童只能在内科或重症监护床位接受一对一持续看护，同时由临床人员四处寻找合适的住院行为健康床位；新病区建成后，这类患者可在专为其需求设计的安全治疗环境中接受精神科治疗。根据美国疾病控制与预防中心的数据，2023年全美40%的高中生报告持续悲伤或无望感，20%曾认真考虑过自杀。
UCSF 校长萨姆·霍古德（Sam Hawgood）说，Kaiser 的1,500万美元是「对北加州儿童和家庭健康福祉的重大投资」。新医院大楼为104张床位，预计2031年启用，还将包括扩建的急诊科、新生儿重症监护室、7间新手术室和更新的影像服务；该院区是北加州仅有的两家一级儿科创伤中心之一，逾70%的患者由加州医疗补助（Medi-Cal）覆盖。
Kaiser Permanente Donates $15 Million to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland for a 20-Bed Pediatric Behavioral Health Unit Serving About 700 Patients a Year
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced on October 28 that Kaiser Permanente is donating $15 million to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, in Oakland, Alameda County, California, to help create its first inpatient behavioral health unit, significantly expanding access to specialized psychiatric care for children and adolescents in the East Bay and across Northern California.
With 20 private patient rooms, the new 21,300-square-foot unit is expected to care for about 700 patients each year. Fifteen rooms are for children and adolescents requiring acute psychiatric care, and five are designed for patients who need both behavioral health and medical treatment. Each room will include space for a caregiver to stay overnight when appropriate, and the wing will also feature an outdoor therapy space and a therapeutic roof garden. The project is part of UCSF Health's $1.6 billion modernization of the Oakland campus and will be housed in a new seven-story hospital building.
UCSF said the hospital currently has no inpatient beds dedicated to acute psychiatric care: children who arrive in crisis may require continuous one-on-one supervision in a medical or intensive care bed while clinicians search for an appropriate inpatient placement elsewhere. Once the unit opens, those patients will be able to receive psychiatric treatment in a safe, therapeutic environment designed for their needs. Citing CDC data, UCSF noted that in 2023, 40 percent of U.S. high school students reported persistent sadness or hopelessness, and 20 percent seriously considered suicide.
"Kaiser Permanente's extraordinary $15 million commitment is a meaningful investment in the health and well-being of children and families across Northern California," said UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood. The new 104-bed hospital building, expected to open in 2031, will include an expanded emergency department, a new neonatal intensive care unit, seven new operating rooms and updated imaging services. UCSF Benioff Oakland is one of just two level one pediatric trauma centers in Northern California, and more than 70 percent of its patients are covered by Medi-Cal.
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图片来源：位于奥克兰的加州大学旧金山分校贝尼奥夫儿童医院（资料图）。Mx. Granger 摄，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland (file photo). Photo by Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
