Penn Medicine is launching a new community mental health hub at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania—Cedar Avenue (HUP Cedar), co-locating inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care with a new crisis response center (CRC) at the facility. The multi-year plan will put crucial psychiatric and substance use care in easy reach for west and southwest Philadelphia residents, at a time when both mental illness and drug and alcohol dependence are surging in the city.
The project will begin with moving inpatient psychiatric and drug and alcohol detoxification units from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center to HUP Cedar in July, followed by the opening of a new crisis response center at the facility later in the summer which is expected to provide an estimated 4,000 patient visits each year. Read more.
