Overview
- Boston Children’s will build a 116-bed pediatric psychiatric hospital on Franciscan Children’s Brighton campus that will carry the Hales’ name.
- The project, reported at about $640 million, will nearly double the system’s inpatient psychiatric capacity.
- Inpatient psychiatric units will shift from Waltham to Brighton, while medical-psychiatric beds remain in Longwood.
- Planned offerings include partial hospital and intensive outpatient care, a 14-bed community acute program, a dental suite, four operating rooms, a pharmacy, outpatient rehabilitation, and outdoor play spaces.
- Hospital leaders say the expansion answers a persistent youth mental-health crisis and funding strains, with efforts also extending to research, clinician training, community partnerships, and a 23-hospital national collaborative expected to top 30 by 2026.