An exam room inside the new Methodist Healthcare Ministries Living Unit at Clarity Child Guidance Center.Clarity Child Guidance Center will open eight new pediatric psychiatric intensive care unit rooms in August, part of the nonprofit’s three-phase expansion of youth mental health services in San Antonio. Success! You're on the list.
The $7 million completion of Phase 1 included the ICU, named Methodist Healthcare Ministries Living Unit, and the renovation of a kitchen with the capacity to feed 125 patients. The updated cafeteria will open July 1, and the ICU opens on August 1. In the new Methodist Healthcare Ministries Living Unit, children with chronic symptoms will have access to individual and group therapy rooms, a therapeutic and private recreation space and an outdoor courtyard. With these expanded services, the center will be able to serve 700 more kids each year, according to the nonprofit.
attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new pediatric psychiatric intensive care unit on Tuesday and echoed Carver’s sentiment about the growing need for youth mental health services.