Tufts Medicine and Acadia Healthcare have formed a joint venture to build a 144-bed behavioral health facility on the site of the former Malden Hospital in Malden, Massachusetts, Health Leaders reports.
The joint venture is designed to increase access to behavioral health inpatient and intensive outpatient care in the Greater Boston area. Access to care is one of the biggest challenges in behavioral health nationwide, with mental health patients boarded in hospital emergency departments for days or weeks awaiting the availability of inpatient beds. Read more.
