New Hampshire DHHS Funding Additional Inpatient Mental Health Capacity

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is funding the creation of 125 new inpatient mental health beds. On March 22, 2023, the state’s Executive Council approved contracts with SolutionHealth for a new behavioral health hospital and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center for new emergency psychiatric beds.

SolutionHealth will receive up to $15 million to help it build a 120-bed behavioral health hospital in Southern New Hampshire. The new SolutionHealth behavioral health hospital would include 72 beds for adults, 24 youth beds, and 24 beds for older adults. The SolutionHealth system hospitals intend to move some . . .