Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health has begun the process of closing psych units and behavioral health services at some of its locations to make way for its standalone behavioral health hospital, according to a June 14 report from masslive.com.
Baystate Health plans to move some behavioral health services from the Westfield, Palmer and Springfield locations to Valley Springs Behavioral Health Hospital in Holyoke, which is set to open in August.
Included in the closures is the 12-bed child and adolescent inpatient unit and partial hospitalization program at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, which first opened in 2021 and was intended to serve as a temporary solution while the Holyoke hospital was completed.
Baystate will also be closing adult inpatient psychiatric beds, including 20 at Baystate Noble in Westfield and 28 at Baystate Wing in Palmer, the report said.