In recent months, major gifts from donors and corporations — ranging from $25 million to more than $100 million — have fueled new behavioral healthcare hospitals, pediatric psychiatric facilities and systemwide initiatives aimed at expanding access and capacity.
Here are six donations to know:
1. Los Angeles-based UCLA Health received a $100 million gift to expand behavioral healthcare services and support completion of its neuropsychiatric hospital and comprehensive mental health campus. The Steward and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatry Hospital at UCLA will relocate and expand to 119 beds. The project also includes a 20-bed outpatient observation unit designed to diagnose and stabilize patients in acute behavioral health crises. The expansion to 119 beds and the outpatient observation unit are slated to be completed in 2027. The hospital is expected to open in fall 2026.
2. The National Council for Mental Wellbeing received a $32 million unrestricted gift to strengthen the organization and support services used by its members to improve the delivery of mental health and substance use treatment. Through its Mental Health First Aid program, the organization has “trained more than 4.5 million people in the U.S. to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges.”
3. Apex, N.C.-based NC Children’s received a $25 million gift from Coca-Cola Consolidated to support the development of its new campus in Apex. It is expected to include a 570-bed, freestanding children’s hospital with more than 100 behavioral health beds and an outpatient center of excellence. The campus is slated to open in the early 2030s and will offer a range of behavioral health services, including prevention, outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization and inpatient treatment.
4. Boston Children’s received a $100 million donation to support a $650 million pediatric psychiatric hospital. The project includes 116 inpatient beds and a day hospital with 24 slots for partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, as well as a 14-bedroom, community-based acute treatment program. The building will house a dental suite, a surgical suite with four operating rooms and 10 preparatory and post-recovery slots, a pharmacy and an outpatient rehabilitation space with a gym and therapy pool.
5. Monterey, Calif.-based Montage Health received a $105.8 million gift to fund the Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health. The gift supported the construction of the Ohana campus, a team of youth mental health professionals and established an endowment to provide long-term funding for youth mental health programs. The program was built with a focus on balancing the full spectrum of crisis care, treatment and prevention services.
6. Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine received a $25 million gift to establish the Dauten Behavioral Health Institute. The institute will serve as a systemwide hub to enhance care coordination, expand access and develop advanced behavioral health care models. The gift also will support programs for peer and employment support, emergency psychiatry, collaborative care models and pilot project funding.
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