New Children’s Psychiatric Center
Project Description
The proposed University of New Mexico Hospitals Children’s Psychiatric Center will be located on UNM’s north campus and will renew the current facility to enable intensive, modern partial hospitalization capabilities on our campus, upgrade the programming and state-wide telehealth support to patients and their families in their communities and provide the physicians and equipment to facilitate concentrated specialty care in facilities located outside Albuquerque.
Children benefit from personalized care that may include inpatient, residential or partial hospitalization (day) programs. The current center is almost 50 years old and consists of a 35-bed cottage-style hospital and adolescent inpatient unit. The facility is spaced out and requires more staff and coverage spread across multiple facilities. It is currently the only facility in New Mexico affiliated with an academic medical center. Also, it is the only center in the state that cares for children with serious emotional disturbances regardless of a family's ability to pay.
UNM Children's Psychiatric Center provides intensive behavioral health care for children and adolescents through age 17. Children benefit from personalized care that may include inpatient, residential or partial hospitalization (day) programs at the center. UNM Children's Psychiatric Center is the only facility in New Mexico affiliated with an academic medical center, and the only center in the state that cares for children with serious emotional disturbances—regardless of a family's ability to pay.
Families play a vital role in children's recovery and well-being, so loved ones join educational and therapy sessions as necessary. Psychiatric Center staff work with community agencies and the child's school to help him or her succeed after returning home.
Additional Background
UNM Children's Psychiatric Center team is equipped to diagnose and treat a variety of issues, including ADHD, anger management, anxiety, behavior disorders, brain injuries, depression, learning disabilities, mental illness, mood disorders, trauma, and trouble at school.
Offering various types of therapy, the UNM Children's Psychiatric Center provides art, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), group, individual and community-family, multisystemic, grief counseling, special care for abuse or sexual trauma, school-based, medication therapy, patient and family education, medication management, and skills for stress, management, accountability, and confidence.
The project will incorporate 24,500 of new square footage with an overall project cost of $40 million including $5 million in equipment.
Total GO Bond Request: $36 million
