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Baystate Medical Center to offer 12-bed behavioral health unit for children in wake of area shortage
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
Dr. Barry Sarvet is a Baystate Health psychiatrist and chair of the psychiatry department at Baystate Medical Center. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Baystate Health will open a temporary 12-bed child and adolescent unit at its Baystate Medical Center campus in April, the health system announced Friday.
Providence Behavioral Health, operating locally as Trinity Health Of New England, closed its 74 inpatient psychiatric beds in September that it once offered in Holyoke. That number included the only 12 pediatric psychiatric beds for children and teens available in the region.