I keep hearing that admissions are rising well above the 432-bed capacity. What’s going to happen to those extra people?
We are well aware that admissions to all state psychiatric hospitals have been rising and we have made plans for a temporary 100-bed overflow unit (CRH), which will be located in Butner, adjacent to the new hospital on the former John Umstead Hospital campus. Plans are also under way for a short-term in-patient unit of up to 60 beds that will be located on the site of the old Dorothea Dix Hospital (CRH-Raleigh Campus). In addition, some patients who have been traditionally served by either John Umstead Hospital or Dorothea Dix Hospital will move into the Cherry Hospital catchment area. Plans are also underway to transition forensic patients to a new forensic unit at Broughton Hospital.
