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McLaren Northern Michigan Opens Behavioral Health Center; Trinity Health Michigan, Universal Health Services Partner on Behavioral Health Hospital · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your industry news spree for Wednesday, June 7th.
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  First McLaren Northern Michigan and POTS is opening the Justin a Bora
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  Behavioral Health Center.
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  The center is in a renovated 11,000 square foot space.
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  It has 18 beds and will offer inpatient services.
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  There are also plans to add less intense treatment in the future.
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  Prior to its opening,
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  there were 35 behavioral health inpatient beds in the northern Michigan region.
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  Second Dominican Hospital in Jackson,
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  Mississippi is closing its behavioral health services. Yesterday,
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  the hospital stopped additional admissions for behavioral health services.
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  However,
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  it will continue to care for current inpatients while working to transfer them
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  to other facilities.
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  The hospital will also be eliminating over 150 physicians across multiple
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  service areas. This includes full-time, part-time, and PRN roles.
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  This reduction will be 5.5% of the hospital's total workforce.
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  Third,
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  universal Health Services and Trinity Health Michigan are partnering to Open
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  South Ridge Behavioral Hospital in Byron Center, Michigan. On Monday,
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  the facility broke ground on the 96 bed Behavioral health hospital.
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  The hospital should open in two years.
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  It aims to employ 170 staff members.
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  This includes physicians, nurses, therapists,
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  and mental health technicians who will serve adults and geriatric patients.
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