Inpatient Care and Intensive Day Treatment

Mental health professionals at Children’s Pavilion will perform assessments and coordinate care based on each patient’s specific needs.

Acute inpatient and partial hospitalization programs at Children’s Pavilion provide care in a safe, structured setting for children who need more continuous support to reach stability.

Acute Inpatient Program

Our acute inpatient psychiatric program is for children and adolescents experiencing mental health emergencies, including imminent risk of harm to self or others or severe disruption of the functions of daily living. This highly resourced program provides the greatest level of structure and safety for patients using evidence-based and proactive treatment approaches, and works collaboratively with families to develop and implement an ongoing individualized plan for success. Acute inpatient treatment is relatively brief. Length of stay varies by patient, averaging several days. As part of discharge planning, patients will often transition to stepdown services that will support their continued progress toward health.

Partial Hospitalization Program

The partial hospitalization program provides intensive day treatment as a step-down from acute hospitalization or a step-up from outpatient services for children and adolescents who have high, but not imminent, safety concerns or a significant disruption to emotional, behavioral, or social functioning. Patients attend this program each weekday during school hours in a structured, therapeutic environment that offers individual, group, and family therapies as well as psychiatric management. Families are also provided support from program clinicians to work through challenges that may exist in the home environment. Discharge planning includes coordination of outpatient services to support each child’s continued progress toward goals and health.