Overview
- Boston Children’s said the 116-bed facility on Franciscan Children’s Brighton campus is part of a roughly $640 million development plan.
- The project will nearly double the hospital’s inpatient psychiatric capacity, relocating inpatient units from Waltham to Brighton while keeping medical-psychiatric beds in Longwood.
- Planned services include partial hospital and intensive outpatient programs, a 14-bed community-based acute treatment unit, dental and surgical suites, a pharmacy, outpatient rehabilitation and outdoor play spaces.
- Hospital leaders cite prolonged ER boarding for pediatric patients as a key driver, noting recent snapshots showing dozens of children waiting for beds across Massachusetts.
- The gift includes naming rights and will also support research, workforce training and a national behavioral-health collaborative now involving 23 hospitals across 17 states, with growth expected to more than 30 by 2026.