Cape Fear Valley Health to break ground on new adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit in Lillington
By Staff Report, posted Jan 30, 2025 on BizFayetteville.com
Cape Fear Valley Health will break ground on a new inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31. The new facility is located on the campus of Central Harnett Hospital at 215 Brightwater Drive, Lillington. Refreshments will be served after the ceremony.
The one-story, 8,850-square-foot building will include 16 inpatient beds and is estimated to be completed by December. It is designed specifically to provide help to psychiatric patients ages 12 to 17 and their families. The construction will cost $8.4 million, funded by the Dorothea Dix Hospital Property Fund and the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund.
“Providing this unit at Central Harnett Hospital allows families much closer access to care and affords them the opportunity to be more connected with their children,” Corporate Director of Psychiatric Services John Bigger said in a press release. “The unit also affords families from other nearby communities the opportunity to receive care in a central location with easy access to nearby highways and resources.”
Children in crisis and their families typically must wait in the emergency room until a bed is available at an adolescent psychiatric treatment facility in North Carolina. During an adolescent’s short-term stay, which is usually three to five days, they will participate in individual, group and/or family counseling with a focus on evidence-based adaptive skill building as a foundation for successful reintegration into the community.
A critical component will be providing services as needed to identify underlying issues and making evidence-based recommendations that will impact future treatment. A secondary goal of the unit is to assist the youth and/or their families with accessing support services that will continue to help the adolescent in improving overall functioning within their home or community setting.
“This is going to help keep kids out of our Emergency Department and get them the help they need,” Bigger added in a press release.
The new state-of-the-art facility will be equipped with psychotherapy staff, psychiatrists, recreational therapists, and others to support the critical components of evidence-based treatment for adolescents.
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