The $7 million, 24-bed unit was funded by the Clearwater, Fla.-based health system and Hillsborough County, according to an April 6 news release from BayCare. The unit will treat patients for medical and psychiatric needs simultaneously.
“This brings psychiatry and medicine together into a single effort to care for the patient as a whole. We’re not carving this out, with a separate space for each,” Anthony Santucci, MSN, RN, director of behavioral health nursing at BayCare, said in the release. “This is a reimagining of a care delivery model.”
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