Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 03 - Mental Health
Section 15-8-90-03-303 - Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Services

Current through September 24, 2024

Nine facilities, with a total of 277 licensed beds, provide acute psychiatric inpatient services for children and adolescents. Map 3-2 shows the location of inpatient facilities that serve adolescent acute psychiatric patients; Table 3-2 gives utilization statistics. The criteria and standards section of this chapter provides a further description of the programs that inpatient facilities offering child/adolescent psychiatric services must provide.

DMH operates a separately-licensed twenty-two (22) bed facility (Oak Circle Center) at Mississippi State Hospital to provide short-term inpatient psychiatric treatment for children and adolescents between the ages of four (4) and seventeen (17).

Table 3-2

Acute Adolescent Psychiatric Bed Utilization FY 2020

Facility

County

Licensed Beds

CON Beds

Abeyance Beds

Inpatient Days

Occupancy Rate (%)

ALOS

Alliance Health Center

Lauderdale

26

0

0

6,992

73.48

8.04

Brentwood Behavioral Healthcare of MS

Rankin

74

15

0

18,282

67.50

10.37

Diamond Grove Center

Winston

25

4

0

7,996

87.39

9.58

Forrest General Hospital

Forrest

16

0

0

6,190

105.70

5.60

Gulfport Behavioral Health System

Harrison

30

0

0

3,300

30.05

2.94

Merit Health River Region

Warren

20

0

0

2,415

32.99

8.26

Oak Circle Center

Rankin

22

0

0

7,945

98.67

39.11

Parkwood Behavioral Health System

DeSoto

52

0

0

10,016

52.63

8.13

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Hinds

12

0

0

3,030

68.99

10.08

Total/ Average Adolescent Psychiatric Beds

277

19

0

66,166

65.26

8.60

Source(s): Applications for Renewal of Hospital License for FY 2020; MSDH Division of Health Planning and Resource Development

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