Pine Rest Mental Health Services and Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital are collaborating with the construction of a $62 million Pediatric Behavioral Health Center. The facility located on Pine Rest’s 220-acre southeast Grand Rapids campus is scheduled to open in 2025.
As diagnosing child and adolescent behavioral health diseases improve and the stigma surrounding behavioral health care is lifting there’s more need for care.
The State of Michigan granting Pine Rest additional beds for its new facility after requesting a Certificate of Need.
“With these 40 beds now, Pine Rest will have the ability to go up to 102 child and adolescent beds if the community needs that.
Bob Nykamp is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
“Because so many kids from around the state and their families have chosen Pine Rest, we’ve had a very high average daily census which allowed us to request these beds on what’s called a ‘high occupancy’ application. So, one it’s not competitive. Nobody else is competing with us for these beds. And two, you know we’ve in some sense already earned them.”
Nykamp tells us Pine Rest is already planning to add a 22-bed unit – a Phase II - after the Pediatric Behavioral Health Center opens in 2025.