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
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