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Business Briefs: PrairieCare, Kindred Behavioral Health, Dignity Health, Children’s Minnesota
PrairieCare Breaks Ground on Expansion of Youth Inpatient Facility
Psychiatric health system PrairieCare announced that it has broken ground on a 30,000-foot expansion of its inpatient hospital in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. The project will add 30 beds, allowing the facility to treat an estimated 3,500 patients per year.
The Minnesota state legislature authorized the expansion in 2021 as part of the Omnibus Health and Human Services Finance Bill in 2021, and then in 2022 passed legislation that waived the hospital bed moratorium and public interest review process required for hospitals before adding mental health and substance use disorder beds to their facilities.
The expansion for PrairieCare follows a separate recent announcement that PrairieCare is partnering with Children’s Minnesota to deliver care in its first inpatient mental health unit this fall.
Kindred Behavioral Health, Dignity Health to Build Inpatient Facility
Kindred Behavioral Health (KBH), a business unit of LifePoint Health, and Dignity Health on Tuesday announced the signing of a letter of intent to build and operate an inpatient behavioral health hospital on the campus of Dignity’s St. Joseph’s Westgate Medical Center in Glendale, Arizona. The new facility will offer mental health services for adolescents, transitional-age youth, adults, and seniors.
The joint venture between KBH and Dignity expands on a pre-existing business relationship in which the organizations collaborate on the operation of an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Arizona’s East Valley region that provides care for patients recovering from severe injuries and illnesses, including stroke, amputation, and orthopedic injuries. A second rehabilitation hospital in the East Valley is also being constructed.
The new 2-story, 95,000-square-foot facility announced on Tuesday will have 96 inpatient beds and offer outpatient services. The hospital is projected to cost $55 million and will employ more than 150 professionals. Construction is slated to begin in the fall of 2023, with an opening in early 2024.
Securian Financial Donates $1 Million to Children’s Minnesota for Inpatient Unit
Children’s Minnesota announced that Securian Financial is donating $1 million to the health system’s first inpatient mental health unit, a 22-bed program located in the system’s St. Paul, Minnesota, hospital. The donation by Securian is the first corporate commitment to the Children’s Minnesota mental health program.
The new inpatient unit is slated to open in the fall, and it will serve children and teens. Children’s Minnesota said in a news release that it expects to care for more than 1000 children and adolescents per year after opening the new unit.
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