ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Children’s Hospital and KVC Health Systems held a topping out ceremony today in Webster Groves, marking the completion of the structural phase for a new 77-bed children’s mental health hospital.
The new facility is a joint venture aimed at addressing the urgent youth mental health crisis in the region. It will provide four new levels of care to increase the capacity for treating children in crisis.
“The St. Louis region has fewer than 50% of the in-patient beds needed to support our kids in crisis with their mental health,” said Trish Lollo, president of St. Louis Children’s Hospital. “And what this project does is it creates more capacity to care for our kids in the St. Louis community and beyond, so that they can have the best possible life.”…