Universal Health plans big psych expansion in New Jersey
The King of Prussia company, which is the largest
Plans for the psychiatric beds came in response to a call by
"There is an immediate need for inpatient care so people can get the treatment they need to get better and return to their communities," Christie said in a news release Friday. He said the 811 approved beds amount to a 40 percent increase in the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in the state.
Providers have two years to open and license the beds.
The new beds are needed, said
"The state is seeing that 50 percent of the people who are coming into state services with a substance-abuse disorder are on Medicaid," he said. Only 10 percent of the new capacity is devoted to the indigent and people on Medicaid, he said.
In Southern Jersey -- outside of
To help fill the gap in
A subsidiary of
As to the fraud investigations against UHS, the state said it found nothing disqualifying at the company. "Psychiatric hospitals run in
Late last month UHS's chief financial officer,
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