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Sheppard Pratt looks to expand adolescent residential treatment services

Sheppard Pratt looks to expand adolescent residential treatment services

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Sheppard Pratt Health System has reached a memorandum of understanding with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to purchase their 115 adolescent residential treatment center beds. These beds were temporarily delicensed in the spring of 2017 following the closure of Good Shepherd Services in Halethorpe.

sheppard-pratt-logoSubsequent to a definitive purchase agreement and certificate of need approval process, Sheppard Pratt hopes to reopen a portion of these much-needed beds in a new location in Baltimore County.

“The lack of access to residential treatment services for adolescents requiring such placements has been felt throughout central Maryland and beyond. We believe that the restoration of some of this capacity will help to alleviate protracted stays in Emergency Rooms,” said Dr. Harsh K. Trivedi, president and CEO of Sheppard Pratt Health System. “This expansion of services will enable psychiatric hospitals to return these youth to the community more promptly,” Trivedi continued.

Sheppard Pratt is currently pursuing a suitable location in Baltimore County to relocate the residential treatment center beds.

 

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