Maryland health care commissioner recommends mental health hospital at Anne Arundel Medical Center
A commissioner with the Maryland Health Care Commission on Monday recommended an Anne Arundel Medical Center psychiatric hospital.
The AAMC Mental Health Hospital would house 16 beds and offer in-patient and out-patient treatment for an array of mental health conditions. It would be a freestanding unit next to the Pathways alcohol and drug treatment facility on Riva Road. The project would comprise 56,236 square feet on four levels and cost about $25 million.
Commissioner Cassandra B.Y. Tomarchio reviewed the application for a “certificate of need,” which the hospital submitted in March 2016, and recommended the full commission approve it with one condition.
“The comprehensive mental health care facility that AAMC seeks to create will provide a setting for patients and families that is secure, private, and dedicated entirely to the comprehensive care and treatment of persons suffering from mental illness,” AAMC officials said in a statement.
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